Fix Word's grammar checker so that stipend is not a proper noun

[Aesculaepius]

In Office 2003, Word's grammar checker states that stipend is a word that
should always be capitalized (thus a proper noun) which it is not according
to every English instructor and dictionary I could locate (including Word's
own "Look Up" feature!)

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[Jay Freedman]

In Office 2003, Word's grammar checker states that stipend is a word
that should always be capitalized (thus a proper noun) which it is
not according to every English instructor and dictionary I could
locate (including Word's own "Look Up" feature!)

My copy of Word 2003 doesn't say anything at all about 'stipend' except to
give a large number of synonyms.

Did you perhaps type the word at the beginning of a line, when the preceding
line ended with a paragraph mark? In that case, Word assumes that it's the
beginning of a new paragraph, and therefore of a new sentence, so it should
be capitalized (not because it's a proper noun -- that's *your* assumption).

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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