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Rule "New guinea (New Guinea)"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description: New guinea (New Guinea)
Message: Did you mean the proper noun <suggestion>New Guinea</suggestion> (= large island)?
Category: Upper/Lowercase (ID: CASING)
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • New guinea is a large island separated by the shallow Torres Strait from the rest of the Australian continent.
    Correction suggestion: New Guinea
ID: NEW_GUINEA [1]
Version: 6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-27 22:33:07 +0100)