Should the sun (the big yellow hot thing, not the newspaper) have a capital letter?

[rumblethump]

is it a proper noun? and so do moon and earth need capping up too?

[EffiePerine]

no

[EffiePerine]

and moon def not - it's a moon the the moon

not entirely sure about Earth as there's only one IYSWIm. Think I would capitalise.

[EffiePerine]

noth the moon

[EffiePerine]

bah

[rumblethump]

that's what i thought. it was in capitls in a newspaper article.

and my friend seemed to think that it should be capital, like the planets Mars, Jupiter, Earth and so too, the Sun.

[wheresthehamster]

All the planets have capital letters don't they? So Earth is correct. If the sun had a name like Sol it would be capitalised but just saying 'the sun' 'the planets' 'the moon' - no.

[EffiePerine]

it certainly used to be capitalised in say 18th and 19th century texts (maybe not later 19th c)

but then so did a lot of nouns we would not capitalise now

[LyraSilvertongue]

No, no, no.