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Re: dumb terminology trivia question

Subject: Re: dumb terminology trivia question
From: Isaac Rabinovitch <isaacr -at- mailsnare -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:39:19 -0800


What's dumb is that you didn't think to look in standard reference, like a thesaurus. Expecially unforgiving, since they're now all a click away. For example:

http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=capital



Rob Partridge wrote:

Someone asked me yesterday what the opposite to "capital letters" was - what
do you call ummm lower case letters. I said "lower case", then explained why
"upper" and "lower case" came to be used. Then they asked what they were
called before the days of hot metal printing presses invented the term lower
case. I guessed just "letters" or "small letters" but wondered if there was
another term. Any clues?

Rob





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