duke used as a noun: The male ruler of a duchy (compare duchess). A high title of nobility; the male holder of a dukedom. A grand duke. “Put up your dukes!”

noun. noun. /duk/ 1a nobleman of the highest rank the Duke of Edinburgh.

The word ‘German’ is a proper noun. It is the name of a specific group of people or a specific language.

A proper noun is a specific (i.e., not generic) name for a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are always capitalized in English, no matter where they fall in a sentence. Because they endow nouns with a specific name, they are also sometimes called proper names.

When terms denoting family relationships are used as proper nouns (as names), they are capitalized. In the examples above, Mom, Dad, and Grandma are capitalized because they are being used like names.

“He requested his aunt Mary” is the correct answer. In this example “aunt” is not part of the proper noun title. If however you were to say: “He requested Aunt Mary” then “Aunt” is capitalized because in that usage “Aunt” is part of the proper noun title of “Aunt Mary”.

Is Aunt Capitalized? The word “aunt” can be capitalized depending on how it is used in a sentence or title. In a title, “aunt” is capitalized. When used generically in a sentence such as: “my aunt said to visit her,” then the word “aunt” is lowercase because it is a generic noun.

Auntie. The main difference between the words Aunty and Auntie are two, the first one is that Aunty is more frequently used in British English while Auntie is more frequently used in American English. The other is that Aunty is mostly used in a more formal tone while Auntie is considered a less formal word.

But, seriously, the word “aunt” has two correct pronunciations: ANT (like the insect) and AHNT. Both pronunciations are given, in that order, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.)

Definitions of aunty. noun. the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle. synonyms: aunt, auntie.

1 : the sister of one’s father or mother. 2 : the wife of one’s uncle or aunt.

AUNTS is a valid scrabble word.

Aunt is another one that’s pronounced differently depending on where you’re from: If you say it “ahnt” you’re probably from Britain or one of just a couple parts of the U.S. (notably the Boston area). In fact, the “ant” pronunciation is the older one, but it shifted to “ahnt” in England after the colonies were settled.

1a : the brother of one’s father or mother. b : the husband of one’s aunt or uncle. 2 : one who helps, advises, or encourages. 3 —used as a cry of surrender was forced to cry uncle.

second cousin

Uncle-in-law can refer to the husband of one’s aunt or uncle or the uncle of one’s spouse. A great-uncle/granduncle/grand-uncle is the brother of one’s grandparent.

Pawnbroking first became commonplace in Britain in the 13th Century when Franciscan friars set up pawnshops to help the poor. In the East End “Uncle” – the Cockney nickname for a pawnbroker – has for many years been a familiar member of the community.