Re: Capitalization of food

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:16:07 -0000, "Ildhund"
<jnllb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>John Hall <nospam_nov03@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>news:r3cNVJFzFFyHFwAg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> In article <fq8v0h$6a4$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Ildhund <jnllb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>>>  I wouldn't write York****re Pudding or Irish Stew or
>>>  Peach Melba in a similar situation. Would you?
>>
>> The ninth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary agrees with you.
>
>So does my Oxford Guide to Style (2002), I think. 4.1.11 lists 'morocco 
>leather' and 'Turkish delight', and wavers between 'Brussels sprouts' and

>'brussels sprouts'. No sign of anything like York****re Pudding or Cornish

>Pasty or Frankfurter Sausage. If any general Hart's rule could be
derived, 
>it would seem to advocate sometimes capitalizing the attribute but never
the 
>noun. Peter, consider yourself outvoted.

oK.

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Peter Duncanson, UK
(in uk.culture.language.english)