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It would be odd if it were not.

Just as you would write "I went to the United States" not "I went to The United States".

(Of course, lower case here means that you should use lower or upper case according to its position in the sentence; it doesn't mean forcibly overridden to lower case like e.e.cummings.)

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From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings#Name_and_capita...:

> The Chicago Manual of Style, which prescribes favoring non-standard capitalization of names in accordance with the bearer's strongly stated preference, notes "E. E. Cummings can be safely capitalized; it was one of his publishers, not he himself, who lowercased his name."

Yeah, the same clowns who decided that the proper noun the Internet should be capitalized the the same way as the adjective internet (as in internet protocols). I’m not sure I would consider their reasoning, well, reasonable.

Well there's other evidence in that section. I just picked something that was nicely quotable. The reasoning that the man himself usually capitalised his own name in the standard way so we should too is pretty hard to argue with.

You didn't need to justify your perfectly reasonable comment. I just hijacked your comment because I have an axe to grind.

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