“Tum, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his drum.” That’s a line I repeat at least three times a day at the moment — from Page 6 of the Little Golden Books classic Baby Listens. And usually, charmed ...

Our picturesque country of Costa Rica boasts a diversity of natural wonders, from lush rainforests to stunning beaches. This gives rise to the question – why do foreigners seem to take liberties with ...

So in another thread, I wanted to start a sentence with the word iPad. However, I couldn't figure out how to do the capitalization without it looking stupid and wrong. So I turn to you, Ars. My heart ...

As reported by Robert Quigley over at Geekosystem, a pretty substantial change was reported as coming to a classic language-driven board game: the legalization of proper nouns in Scrabble. Robert was ...

For decades family arguments have raged furiously over whether words like Quzhou (a city in southern China, 27 points) and Zuma (as in the South African president, 15 points) are eligible. At least to ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.

MARK COLVIN: Names like Mozart, Obama, and Picasso might be part of common parlance but they're also set to find themselves onto a Scrabble board. The makers of the boardgame have announced a new ...

In 2 studies, 2-year-old children learned a novel word modeled as a proper noun (e. g., "This is Zav") for an animate stuffed toy. Children who learned the word for a familiar object (i. e., one for ...

Oh, look! There’s some thing sleeping in the trees! Common nouns are the names of things, that’s people, places or objects, while a proper noun is the name of a particular person, place or thing.