Saturday, January 29, 2005

Capital offense

The new music device from Apple is the "iPod Shuffle," not the "iPod shuffle." That would be some silly dance you do while listening to your iPod.

I know you know I feel this way, but it bears repeating: Proper nouns get a capital letter. It's the Shuffle. (And iPod gets away with keeping their I lowercase at the start of the word because it has a cap letter near the beginning, still indicating that it's a proper noun. Consider Leonardo da Vinci's last name. And eBay.)

2 Comments:

At 11:34 PM, October 10, 2005, Blogger DeAnn said...

Maybe they want it to be the iPod nAno and the iPod sHuffle...

 
At 4:50 AM, October 14, 2005, Blogger House of Dave said...

Actually, if it were a hot new dance craze sweeping the nation, I think it would still be the iPod Shuffle. Remember the Super Bowl Shuffle?

 

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