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Why don't you capitalize french words?

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Some words do have capital letters, such as people's names, names of countries, place names, names of institutions etc. Which words are you thinking of?

English (and German even more) are different from the rest of the Indo-European languages, that is they only capitalize the words mentioned above and the first words of a sentence.

The French do NOT capitalize the days of the week, the months of the year, or cardinal points, for instance. Neither do the French capitalize the adjectives and the nouns coming from names of countries or cities. However, the words for people (Anglais,

Français, Espagnol) are usually capitalized.

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