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Pesky North, South, East, West

Points of compass: small first letters - north, south, east, west.

Regions: Capitalized first letters - I’ll be in the North; I’m heading South; I’m a Northerner.

Descriptions of places: small first letters - eastern Siberia; western France.

Descriptions of widely-known places: capitalized first letters - Southern California; Lower East Side.

10:18 am, by daily-deep-quote
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