Thank you for the clarification. It seems strange that "the President" is a proper name. In Spanish we used to say e.g. "el papa" (pope) when not mentioned ne

Thank you for the clarification. It seems strange that "the President" is a proper name. In Spanish we used to say e.g. "el papa" (pope) when not mentioned near the proper name "el Papa Francisco". Nowadays even if they're still common names, a lot of public positions and institutions are capitalized by media, probably to show that they're more important than us, common mortals :-) I remember being annoyed writing documents for the job that insisted in taking this fad to an extreme and capitalizing everything that was even vaguely related to the authority positions. There's a special level at hell for language reformers.