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by Jonathon Green » Tue Jun 03, 1997 7:00 am
Help. Moral blackmail alert! OK. A proper name is something like 'Tyler Smith Jr' or as the Oxford English Dictionary has it:
'Applied to a name or noun which is used to designate a particular individual object (e.g. a person, a tame animal, a star, planet, country, town, river, house, ship, etc.). A proper name is written with an initial capital letter. The same proper name may be borne by many persons in different families or generations, or by several places in different countries or localities; but it does not connote any qualities common to and distinctive of the persons or things which it denotes. A proper name may however receive a connotation from the qualities of an individual so named, and be used as a common noun, as a Hercules, a Cæsar (Kaiser, Czar), a Calvary, an atlas.'
So now you know.
The next problem is the riddle. I fear you may be in for summoning up your best charm offensive here since even the WW, duly grateful for your support, isn't very good at word games. Its probably a US state, although lots seem to have the requisite two x 'n' not so many have the e's. Anyway, good luck.
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