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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: national lowercase day (14 october)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:56:30 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-14, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> but bicamerality did not become general in europe until 1300
> and took some time to more or less stabilize in english
> you probably noticed in the text quoted yesterday from the time of henry 
> iv, all nouns capitalized (as still in german)

In the 19th century, there was a fashion in the German linguistic
literature, I think, to abandon noun capitalization.  Notably the
_Deutsches Wörterbuch_ (German Dictionary) started by the Brothers
Grimm stuck to this.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de