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Old Aug 14, 2014 | 5:54 pm
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Originally Posted by BA0197
From a strictly linguistic standpoint a proper noun is a proper noun and does not change with a change in language. Scotch Tape in French is Scotch Tape. British Airways is British Airways in Arabic. Of course there are accent pronunciations of the proper noun.
Except that "British" is not a noun.
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