Novyj god
Margarita Orlova
margarita at RENT-A-MIND.COM
Sun Jan 6 08:50:55 UTC 2008
The rule is more general: a nominative proper phrase has only the first
noun capitalized, e. g., zhural "Novyj mir", Oktiabr'skaja revoliucia,
gazeta "Za nashu Sovetskuju Rodinu" (both last nouns were capitalized
as a result of atheism;0
Margarita A Orlova
Graduate Student in Linguistics, SJSU
PhD in Russian
http://rent-a-mind.com/margarita/
On Sunday, January 6, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Zielinski wrote:
> Alina Iraeli:
>
>> God is not capitalized.
>
> As a result of atheism? :-)
>
> Jan Zielinski
>
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