Why we call capitalized letters 'uppercase' and non-capitalized letters 'lowercase'
For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names due to capital letters being stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...
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The Surprisingly Literal Reason We Call Letters “Uppercase” and “Lowercase”
The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory. Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot o ...
Goodbye capital letters: Gen Z ask “What’s the point? It doesn’t feel authentic”
Gen Z is dropping capital letters – and millennials, stuck in grammar class flashbacks, are asking what it all means for ...
Why Many Road Signs Are No Longer Written in All Caps
Why, then, are there still so many all-caps road signs? Two reasons: First, the FHWA still requires certain kinds of signage to be written in all caps. These include cardinal directions (north, south, ...