Re: The Instrument? The instrument?

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At 2:05 PM -0600 12/9/08, Nancy Allison wrote:
>If you've worked on anything that refers to a hardware thingy by both
>its clunky formal name and by the phrase "the instrument," do you
>capitalize "instrument"?
>
>The manual I've inherited does. The phrase has a homey, old-timey,
>reverential feel. Seems as if maybe I should bow my head every time I
>read it.
>
>   Does it strike you as an outdated convention? Would you capitalize it?
>I'm dying to knock down the caps but want a to hear others' opinions.
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It isn't a proper name. The Scots are capitalized however humans are 
not. The same goes for the instrument.

Scott
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