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fishwax
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Thu Oct-22-09 04:31 PM
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| 25. football isn't really a particular thing |
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It's a number of things.
It is a smaller subcategory of sport, yes, but that doesn't make it a particular/proper noun or mean that it should be capitalized, any more than "tree" should be capitalized just because it is a subset of plant.
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