On 2/28/01 8:58 AM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Both of these are easily addressed: delete the clip art; use "General
>> Setting -> Spelling -> Ignore Internet and file addresses" (by the way the
>> capitalization there is uneven, if "Internet" is capitalized, shouldn't
>> "File Addresses"?)
>
> As I wrote to the people who publish the Chicago Manual of Style (who have
> gratuitously ignored my advice):
> The Internet is capitalized. An internet is not.
>
> An internet is a collection of networked networks.
>
> The Internet is self-referentially defined.
>
> See also <http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html#Internet>
But in this instance (in the preferences) it is adjectival, modifying
"addresses." This it should not be capitalized, just as "biblical" is not
capitalized, but Bible is.
Cb
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