Quote: LeedsBornWelshRoots "I'm delighted that you capitalised "Earth".
It's so often written as "earth" these days in publications which would not dream of using "mars" or "saturn", etc.
Also, when I was at school (a very long time ago) I'm sure we were instructed to capitalise biblical places like Heaven and Hell but they're nearly always written "heaven" and "hell" these days.'"
Ah yes, well spotted. I'm particularly irked by Earth/earth. Likewise with World/world. I'm sure that world is grammatically correct these days, but it will always be World to me.