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Saturday, July 7, 2018

Capitals or no capitals? Madeira or madeira?

Problem
Madeira wine from madeira or madeira wine from madeira? You see the problem.

Answers
My relative Trevor Sharot, wine educator (that's not just a description but an organisation with entry tests) has a on his blog Grapedeal.com an article on madeira wine. He has chosen to use capitals for the country and small initials for the wine, in order to distinguish them.

This is a common acceptable convention which Trevor uses to reduce ambiguity and make for speedier reading.

I use State for the States of the USA, for the state, place, in which you find yourself, but state with a small s for the condition or state in which you find yourself.

In German you have a capital for every noun.

Champagne is a region and so when referring to the area you would use a capital to describe the region.

Angela Lansbury
Travel writer and photographer.

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