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Following her lead, the French encyclopedic dictionary Petit Larousse Illustré has added the musician’s name as a proper noun in its 2024 update.
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
Anytime the viewer might get tripped up by the proper nouns, Villeneuve is there to strike them with the power of Herbert’s universe.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
In general, lemmas exclude proper nouns (names of people, places, …).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
But capitalization is sparsely employed in the Spanish language, which uses the lowercase for many proper nouns and titles.
—Terence McGinley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 2 May 2024
Anytime the viewer might get tripped up by the proper nouns, Villeneuve is there to strike them with the power of Herbert’s universe.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024
In general, lemmas exclude proper nouns (names of people, places, …).
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
But capitalization is sparsely employed in the Spanish language, which uses the lowercase for many proper nouns and titles.
—Terence McGinley, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
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“Proper noun.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proper%20noun. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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