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Derbies
Friday is a proper noun, not a common noun. Nouns refer to people, places, and things. Nouns can be divided into proper nouns and common nouns. Proper nouns are names for specific people, places, events, and things, such as Professor Purple, Dublin, and the Kentucky Derby, and are capitalized. Common nouns are nouns that refer to types of people, places, and things, such as postman, anaconda, radio, driveway, millennium, and liberty, and are not capitalized except at the beginning of a sentence. Friday is a proper noun because it refers to a specific day of the week.
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Derby
Because it rhymes! I think Derby Kelly was a singer, I seem to recall she was the first woman to have 2 songs in the UK top ten simultaneously (don't ask me why I know that, I think I read it somewhere... quite possibly a spurious source).
Ummm.... How about: I went to the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.
Kentucky Derby was created in 1875.
Thoroughbreds compete in the Kentucky Derby.
The Kentucky Derby is held annually in the state of Kentucky.
It was Clark who started the Kentucky Derby.
The first Kentucky Derby race was run in 1875.
Orb won the 2013 Kentucky Derby.
Thoroughbred horses compete in the Kentucky Derby.
Kentucky Derby Museum was created in 1984.
The Kentucky Derby is always the first Saturday of May.
The web address of the Kentucky Derby Museum is: www.derbymuseum.org
The first Kentucky Derby wasn't held on the first Saturday of any month. Instead, it was held in the middle of the month. The specific date was May 17, 1875.