B Britney M Guest Mar 18, 2009 #1 When I type "laundromat" in Microsoft Office Word 2007, it auto corrects by capitalizing the word. When I change it to lower case, it is underlined as an error. Why?
When I type "laundromat" in Microsoft Office Word 2007, it auto corrects by capitalizing the word. When I change it to lower case, it is underlined as an error. Why?
P patticharron Guest Mar 18, 2009 #2 The software is picking it up as a proper noun, which it is not. You can go into the spell-check/grammar-check and change that.
The software is picking it up as a proper noun, which it is not. You can go into the spell-check/grammar-check and change that.
E Emasculated Britain Guest Mar 18, 2009 #3 Because the word is a genericised trade name, and therefore a proper noun. Here we call them launderettes.
Because the word is a genericised trade name, and therefore a proper noun. Here we call them launderettes.
