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When you address a letter "Dear sir/madam", should the "sir" be capitalised?
People keep saying it should, and yet to me, it feels that it shouldn't. It's not a proper name (it's more like a terminally un-capitalised pronoun). Am I looking at this from the wrong light? Is it a title and therefore should always be capitalised?
When you address a letter "Dear sir/madam", should the "sir" be capitalised?
People keep saying it should, and yet to me, it feels that it shouldn't. It's not a proper name (it's more like a terminally un-capitalised pronoun). Am I looking at this from the wrong light? Is it a title and therefore should always be capitalised?
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Date: 2004-02-16 09:18 pm (UTC)Yes, in that case it would not be capitalized. But in salutations it is.
*curls up in a corner, sucking thumb and clutching OED*