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From: Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz>
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Subject: national lowercase day (14 october)
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:30:42 +1300
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another day of unknown origin and insubstantial observance
may be (sez crystal) a reaction against use of SHOUTY CASE in digital 
communication
anyhow, the subject (of 'bicameral' scripts) is interesting;
see especially the history
old roman cursive (1st century ad) shows the beginnings of some lower 
case letter-forms
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)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Bicameral_script