Editing Talk:Anglicism (section)

== Capitalized or not? ==

I'm writing a thesis on Anglicisms in the German language and have been capitalizing the term. In this Wikipedia article, it seems the capitalization, or lack thereof, is haphazard. I don't care if it's upper or lower case, I just think it should be consistent.  Which brings me to my question: should the term be capitalized?  <!-- Template:Unsigned IP --><small class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/2601:44:8880:B580:8D71:2888:E4A9:9776|2601:44:8880:B580:8D71:2888:E4A9:9776]] ([[User talk:2601:44:8880:B580:8D71:2888:E4A9:9776#top|talk]]) 02:26, 19 January 2017 (UTC)</small> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
:Use both capitalised and uncapitalised at the start of the paper separated with an "or", then pick whichever you prefer and use that throughout. English (unlike German, and unlike many other languages) has very few hardfast rules, and this particular class of words -- nouns that are not proper nouns but are derived from proper nouns -- seems to be completely variable either way. An exception would be a word that has a different meaning when capitalised vs uncapitalised. The only word I know of that is like that is Marxism vs marxism, but there may be others.
[[User:Firejuggler86|Firejuggler86]] ([[User talk:Firejuggler86|talk]]) 06:02, 15 April 2020 (UTC)