Because Turkey Day is like a nickname, it’s a proper noun, June Casagrande says, and should be capitalized.

To form the possessive of a noun that ends in S, AP style has separate rules for proper names and generic nouns. For proper names like James, AP says, add an apostrophe only: He borrowed James’ car.

Calm down, Scrabble purists. Turns out rumors about allowing proper nouns in the beloved board game were just rumors. Scrabble expert Stefan Fatsis says the rules have remained virtually unchanged ...

MIT is both a proper name and a proper noun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology is not a noun, proper or not, because only single words qualify as nouns), meaning you can drop the determiner ...

Nearly half of the country — 47 percent — refers to it as "soda," while 23 percent say "pop" and another 19 percent go the proper noun route and say "Coke." ...

As the Scripps National Spelling Bee gets underway, here's what Google Trends says about the words that each state struggles ...

They then tried to add words that could be more than just a regular noun. Since Buffalo is a proper noun, as well as a noun and a verb, they came up with “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo ...

As for the notion of permitting “proper nouns” in Scrabble, well, let’s take a peek inside the Official Word List , the rulebook for club and tournament play in North America. JAPAN is in there!

4. Proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed. Contact Word Game creator Kathleen Saxe at [email protected]. Originally Published: June 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM PDT ...

3. Additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. For example, if “bake” is used, “baked” or “bakes” are not allowed, but “bake” and “baking” are admissible. 4. Proper nouns, slang ...