RE: How well understood is sentence case?

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

While I agree with Richard's definition in the second paragraph, I'm not
so sure about the conclusion in the first. It may be a bit of an
interpretive leap to build your case for preponderance based on Google
here. A great many newspapers and magazines and newsletters, for
instance, use sentence case in their headlines. Even assuming that all
of these are online, there's nothing in their use of sentence case that
would flag Google. One would only be able to tell by observation. 

My two cents :)
Jim

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Subject: RE: How well understood is sentence case?

Cardimon, Craig wrote: 
 
> Is there a well understood term for describing a string of characters 
> where the first letter is uppercase and the rest are lowercase?
> 
> Title Case seems "official," sentence case less so.

Well, a Google search for "title case" (with quotes) returns 214,000
results, while a search for "sentence case" (with quotes) returns only
94,900 -- so I suppose it's valid to say the term is less commonly used.
Both searches return irrelevant law-related results ("death sentence
case," "Raytheon title case"), but there are plenty of hits that suggest
the term is well-understood and "official" (Wikipedia, Answers.com,
UsabilityNews.com). 

FWIW, though, your definition seems ambiguous (depending on context, of
course) because it also describes a one-word title or label using title
case. I think a sentence case definition needs to speak of multiple
words, only the first of which begins with an uppercase letter (with
appropriate exceptions like proper names noted). 

Richard


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