Why do you want to spell it NorthEast?ghostjmf wrote:CAC-dom isn't just a red-statey phenom, either. There's a rag printed by some organization presuming to speak for the police of Boston which sometimes gets distributed on the same rack the library puts the Somerville Journal on. So I take it home & I'm reading...whaaaa?
There's lots of evidence that they put their rants into practise, too, sadly.
There's a Boston-area group of African-American police which I should google the name of which calls CAC-Northeast out on their every nutso rant. But this has been going on for nigh onto 40 years now. Before that, there weren't African-American police on the force to call them out.
On a completely diff note, can some board mavens turn off the evil computer routine that, even though I am currently on a real computer, won't let me put North & East together to form one word without decapitalizing the "E"? Usually autodestroyers give up after you type the same thing in many times, but this one doesn't on this issue. Can't blame this one on my tablet's autocorrect.
I looked up about half a dozen websites that discuss when to capitalize and when not to capitalize cardinal directions.
I can't find a single one that suggests there now is or ever has been a convention followed by anyone where when you combine two cardinal compass points into one directional indicator that you capitalize both cardinal points in the one word you have created.
--Bob
