upper case

tosscat

lets nip the trend for upper case in the bud please

David

I prefer sentence case personally. Although camel case is perfectly acceptable in Eugene's Lair.

unaesthetic

You all know why caps is called 'upper case' and …er… lower case is called 'lower case', right?

ShaunG

erm... perhaps not? Do explain.

injoke

because there were two different keys before shift buttons were invented? one upper one and one lower one?

injoke

the etymology of the word "cliche" is interesting. in the days before moveable type some french newspapers would have whole common phrases on a key which you could then click, hence "cliche". ok more coffee

krappyrubsnif

@unaesthetic because typesetters stored metal type in two cases - the one at the top was the big letters?

Marquis

'minuscules' is the other word, by the way.

bennyfromtheblok

MAJUSCULES - great word.

unaesthetic

krs - exactly

marquis - of course! i just couldn't put my finger on that word last night!