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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1894)	2/28/1999 8:50:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

I haven't yet saved enough to afford the OED, but the Concise Oxford Dictionary lists preventive as both adjective and noun, and under definition 2 goes on to say "n. ~agent, measure, drug, etc. Hence or cogn. preventative a. & n., ~ly adv. (cogn. is their abbreviation for cognate.) A question. In the last sentence above should the first c be capitalized to start the sentence, as is the usual practice, or uncapitalized because I am referring to the term as used in the dictionary, and the dictionary does not capitalize it either in the definition or in the table of abbreviations?