QUOTE (My Garden Shed @ Sep 26 2008, 21:45)

Are they The Huns or the huns?
Presumably some would like to see them as a race/ tribe/ group worthy of a capital "H"?
Or are they not important enough, and merely the huns?
Presumably it refers to the common usage of the Hun as being a German, in which case it should be a capital, as with all German nouns (I think).
None of the marauding tribes from the Steppes, i.e. the Huns, the Goths or the Vandals get a good press, do they?
Edited to say I forgot the Mongols in there.