[ih] 'Internet' vs 'internet'

[Scott Brim]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:46 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

> BTW, reading up on this topic, apparently some places capitalize the thing,
> but not its use in adjectival form. I don't believe this is correct. One
> doesn't say 'white house hallway', it would (properly) be 'White House
> hallway'. And 'Internet hosts' has a different meaning (again) from
> 'internet
> hosts'.
>

What I did for this, to make the meaning crystal clear and perhaps
informative, was to avoid adjectival forms. Instead of "Internet hosts",
"hosts on the Internet".
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