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Sat 23 May, 2015 05:36 pm
IF the adjective "teddy bear" were named after the American president Theodore Roosevelt, why don't we capitalize its initial letter?
@Mostafa Zaki,
It's no longer a proper noun because it no longer refers to a specific person who goes by that name. Instead, it's a common noun that refers to a class of inanimate objects.
@Mostafa Zaki,
because it's not copyrighted or trademarked term now in the mainstream, it's now a generic term.
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