Proper Nouns Starting With Lower Case Letters Question

Factual Questions
1

This has probably been asked before but I couldn’t find it. So if it has please feel free to link me to that discussion

Anyway…

I was wondering now that some proper names like eBay, a-ha (musical group) or 's-Gravenhage (The Hague) start with lower case letters.

Now if you begin a sentence with them do you capitalize the first letter, which is normally lowercase?

I have a feeling is, “In this case rewrite the sentence so it doesn’t start with that word” but I figured I’d ask.

2

Yes, just last week, actually. :slight_smile:

A Question About Upper-Case and Lower-Case

3

There ought to be a way to start a sentence with iTunes or duMaurier without having to use an uneconomical and awkward construction.

4

This is the thing iTunes did to us.

5

Since the question appears to have been answered in a previous thread(link in Post #2), let’s close this zombie.

samclem, Moderator