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Why is it called upper and lower case?

When you spend hours proofreading and retyping essays, you get to wondering- why dowe refer to large letters as upper case, and small as lower case? It’s actually a remnantof a past where printing presses had manually set letters. Small letters, which were usedthe majority of the time, were kept in the lower, easier to access case. Where as largeletters were kept in the upper. Also interesting to note is that capitalization belongs tothe script, not the language. So all languages using Latin script, like English, have upperand lower case, but languages using Devangari, such as Hindi or Sanskrit do not.


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