>>>>>So every game is capitalized, as in Poker, Rugby, Checkers?
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>>>Why is "The Library of Congress" capitalized? Does this mean all libraries are capitalized? ;-)
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>>Let's take a step back. I'm the one with questions, and you are the helpful native with answers and explanations.
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>>So far, my conclusions, probably wrong, are
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>>1) there are no rules in english grammar, it has only lists
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>>2) to capitalization of ordinary Nouns there are no lists, either; it's a completely arbitrary Decision by one who writes.
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>https://www.nytimes.com/
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>For many of us who ponder about proper English usage (at least by Yanks), the NYT is still the bible.
>Check out the use of upper and lower case in today's headlines.
>There's a pattern there, but as you said, it's a pattern designed by the NYT, not by some grammar deity in the sky.

Headline case almost has rules (Everything is Uppercase Except When too Short), that's an exception. The regular text, at least in NYT, seems pretty close to how I imagine it would be - apart from the ridiculous habit of making months, days of week and adjectives derived from names into persons, the rest of it is capitalizing the way I'd do it, and the way it's done in other languages (except German).

It's the usage apart from such shrines of proper language where I see not just absence of rules but a total lack of logic. Why do you write golf and he writes Cricket?

I have a guy on the team who writes things like "may impair the ability of Services relying on specific Shares to start reliably". He also thinks that text on commandbuttons must always be in headline case, but when I ask him to point me to the article of which that is a headline, he doesn't understand.