portland cement concrete or Portland cement concrete
portland cement concrete or Portland cement concrete
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Should the "P" in Portland always be capitalized when referencing the material in an engineering report (geotechnical report)? I've always capitalized it, but recently found that some engineers don't.





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That being said, most spellcheckers will nonetheless try to get you to capitalize it since the assumption is that it's referring to the name of at least one of two major US cities.
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http://www.concretethinker.com/detail/History-Port...
Since it was named for the Isle of Portland, I think that seals it.
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f-d
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SI Units which are named after people are spelt in full in lower-case, but the symbol is generally capitalised; e.g.:
Hz = hertz
N = newton
A = ampere
K = kelvin
Perhaps surprisingly, the correct unit names and capitalisation for the other two common measures of temperature degrees are the "degree Celsius" (°C) and the "degree Fahrenheit" (°F) - this is because the full name of the unit is the "degree Celsius" or "degree Fahrenheit", both of which have a leading lower-case "d", and the proper name follows, and is therefore capitalised. The kelvin is just the "kelvin", not the "degree Kelvin". You may think this is silly, but it is what it is!
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And until Ronald Reagan (AKA "Saint Ronald") came along, it was tradition to NOT name anything after someone until AFTER they had died. Since then we've had all sorts of examples of 'memorializing' individuals for whom there has not yet actually been any memorials for.
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"I'm never lending my name to a unit unless they capitalize it."
An interesting point of view from somebody who has an all-lower-case user-name!
I suggest the "hokie" (or should that be the "Hokie"?) as a unit of measurement of controversial content in an internet forum thread, where 66 hokies is defined as being sufficiently controversial to sustain diametrically opposing points of view, yet ultimately having no real significance whatsoever.
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f-d, M.Eng., '86
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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@hokie66: But you'd be a, "Fighting Gobbler," eh?
f-d
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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When I have this type of question, I look for a reputable source. The Portland Cement Association does not capitalize portland cement. If it is good enough for them, it's good enough for me. See http://www.cement.org/cement-concrete-basics/concr...
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The excerpt below is from 'The story of ‘STENT’: From noun to verb' by Surender Deaora
This story of stent, which started as proper noun to an adjective to a common noun and finally as a verb to describe an action, seems likely to be originated from the dentist Charles Thomas Stent, although the other obsolete English and Scottish meaning may also be there. We do not know whether the family surname Stent might have been originated from the original Scottish or an Oxford English meaning but if it is there, then both the alternatives are correct. Today, the word stent is now generic and the greatest accolade by medical fraternity to the inventor Charles Stent is given by dropping capital “S” and using the lowercase “s” in the word stent, although inadvertently.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC48670...
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