The English North South divide

[Drewster]

Does it involve a chutney spoon?

I refer the Honourable Snaw to my previous response

[chris79]

Some corrections made.

On a more serious note, should it be 'South' or 'south'? (Or 'North' or 'north'...?)

Are they proper nouns? What about 'Northerner' versus 'northerner'? (I'm thinking northerner is correct.) Can the CUK grammar police help?!

Capital Letters
When do you use a capital letter?
1. A sentence always begins with a capital
letter.
2. A proper noun, like a person’s name,
begins with a capital letter.
3. A proper noun, like a place, begins with a
capital letter.
4. Proper nouns, which are SPECIAL
names, begin with a capital letter.
(Christmas, Easter, June, Monday etc.)


In my view the 'South' is a place which exists as far as I'm concerned.

[swamp]

Capital Letters
When do you use a capital letter?
1. A sentence always begins with a capital
letter.
2. A proper noun, like a person’s name,
begins with a capital letter.
3. A proper noun, like a place, begins with a
capital letter.
4. Proper nouns, which are SPECIAL
names, begin with a capital letter.
(Christmas, Easter, June, Monday etc.)


In my view the 'South' is a place which exists as far as I'm concerned.

Hmm. I'm not so sure.

Proper nouns (also called proper names) are nouns representing unique entities (such as London, Jupiter or Johnny), as distinguished from common nouns which describe a class of entities (such as city, planet or person).[7] Proper nouns are not normally preceded by an article or other limiting modifier (such as "any" or "some"), and are used to denote a particular person, place, or thing without regard to any descriptive meaning the word or phrase may have.

So since we can't say:

He lives in South.

we have to say:

He lives in the south.

[minestrone]

North becomes a capitalised word when it us used in a place, like North London. But if you were to say 'I am going north' it is lowercase.