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No, it's not a proper noun or name.

Posted By: nope on 2005-09-15
In Reply to: To capitalize or not to capitalize - dilemma

Subject: No, it's not a proper noun or name.




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Subject: thanks, I think it is being used as a noun

in this case, so will use followup.  On this particular account, they don't like follow up hyphenated, so we have to use followup or follow up.  Sometimes at the end of the day this gets very confusing to me and I can't think anymore.  Thanks for your help!
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