The Surprisingly Literal Reason We Call Letters “Uppercase” and “Lowercase”
Then, as early as the 1st century CE, minuscule began to emerge: smaller, rounder letters that required fewer strokes. You ...
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Cursing The Curse Of Cursive
Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand ... from easy Zorro-like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version. It was as though ...
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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 ... of Latin texts across Europe. A page in black-letter from a 15th-century book of hours known as the ...