When Is a Proper Name a Proper Noun? By Rose Jacobs July 19, 2017 From “Baby Listens” by Esther Wilkin, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin (1960) “T um, tum, tum dee dum, Baby’s beating on his ...

Mattel's new edition of scrabble called Scrabble Trickster is including new rules that would allow the use of proper nouns. Mattel owns the rights to Scrabble outside North America. In the U.S ...

In 2 studies, 2-year-old children learned a novel word modeled as a proper noun (e. g., "This is Zav") for an animate stuffed toy. Children who learned the word for a familiar object (i. e., one for ...