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Internet is a pronoun and should be capitalised, the header image is from nearly 2 decades ago, and the byline needs an Oxford comma — get proper editor, The Guardian!

@rlamacraft

I'm pretty sure that "Internet" is not a pronoun.

(Does it count as "correcting someone's grammar" if you are actually just correcting their meta-grammar?)

@Pat I’ll agree that it’s a debated point, much like the Oxford comma, and The Guardian comes down on the lowercase side, but it just feels wrong to me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitali

@rlamacraft
I'm not sure what's going on here, maybe this is ab-o-t (sic) I'm trying to communicate with but "Internet" is a proper noun, not a pronoun. Your comment about the Guardian's grammar was "meta-grammar" because it's *about* grammar, so my comment correcting your statement was actually correcting meta-grammar. My comment was meant as very dry humor. Too dry I guess.

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