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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: national lowercase day (14 october)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:07:28 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-10-15, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> I meant to mention that something like this capitalization practice 
> persisted in English at least until late in the 18th century. [...]
> This looks roughly like capitalization of lexical words for emphasis, 
> rather than on any grammatical basis.

My go-to example is the original text of the United States Declaration
of Independence.

I think I've also seen it in some French texts from that time.
There's probably an archive of revolutionary pamphlets somewhere.

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