Why do you use capital letters for the names of days of the week and months?
I mean the English speakers.

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because it is a proper noun...

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it's the rule of thumb, actually.  All proper nouns should be written with a capital letter.

I'm just a bit curious about chinese calendar which when written in english, go with capital letters when in fact they are 'common nouns':

"Year of the Metal Tiger" for instance.

:)

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A noun is a person, place, or thing.  A proper noun is a noun that is also a name.  Proper nouns are usually capitalized in English.  They could be names of people (Susan, Mike, George), names of places (Beijing, Nile, Russia, Johnstown), or names of things (Apple Computer, Saturday).

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Because...that's the rule!

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Because the Rules of Capitalization said so.

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