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curious guy
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 12:22 pm    Post subject: Capitalization question Reply with quote
I am helping someone write a story and I realized that I am not sure
when "dad" should be capitalized. I think that if one writes "my
dad", "his dad" etc. that it is not capitalized and that when it is
used as a name, like this, "then Dad said" it is but I am not sure.
Is this correct?

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Alan Jones
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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 1:06 pm    Post subject: Re: Capitalization question Reply with quote
"curious guy" <don'tspam_me@nospam.net> wrote in message
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I am helping someone write a story and I realized that I am not sure
when "dad" should be capitalized. I think that if one writes "my
dad", "his dad" etc. that it is not capitalized and that when it is
used as a name, like this, "then Dad said" it is but I am not sure.
Is this correct?

Yes.

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