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OK, so, as a native English speaker (and maybe specifically one in America), I generally try to capitalize "proper nouns", whether you have standing for a trademark or not... I thereby will happily talk about how "the App Store is an example of an app store" (though I also tend to disambiguate at least one instance with "Apple App Store", which, I think, certainly should be capitalized).

Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse", amirite?
Capitalization is the difference between "I had to help my uncle Jack off a horse" and "I had to help my uncle jack off a horse", amirite?

Well... "I helped my uncle, Jack, off a horse" is the actual correct way to write that sentence.

Uncle is a title, so if it’s used as GP did (rather than as a noun like you did), it doesn’t require the commas in this way. Consider the word Mister/“Mr.”

Both are correct but use the words differently.

Yeah. FWIW, I had considered modifying it to capitalize "Uncle" as well, but honestly I don't know the rules for that, and the original copy of this I was quoting hadn't done so (though I had seen others which had) ;P.

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