Comments on: Marking Capitals and Small Capitals http://the-word-blog.com/2009/11/15/marking-capitals-and-small-capitals/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 23:22:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heather http://the-word-blog.com/2009/11/15/marking-capitals-and-small-capitals/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Heather Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:23:12 +0000 http://the-word-blog.com/?p=1034#comment-50 Hi, Kevin. You're quite right about using a slash through a capital to make it lowercase. You can read more about that here if you like: http://the-word-blog.com/2009/08/13/changing-capitals-to-lowercase/ The triple underline described above will mark letters as capitals, and the double underline makes them into small capitals. Hope that helps! And it is funny how new words seem to crop up in bunches, isn't it? I recently had that happen with the word delope. (Well, it wasn't really a bunch of times, just twice, but still it was strange.) Hi, Kevin.

You’re quite right about using a slash through a capital to make it lowercase. You can read more about that here if you like: http://the-word-blog.com/2009/08/13/changing-capitals-to-lowercase/

The triple underline described above will mark letters as capitals, and the double underline makes them into small capitals. Hope that helps!

And it is funny how new words seem to crop up in bunches, isn’t it? I recently had that happen with the word delope. (Well, it wasn’t really a bunch of times, just twice, but still it was strange.)

]]> By: Kevin Dickinson http://the-word-blog.com/2009/11/15/marking-capitals-and-small-capitals/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Kevin Dickinson Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:17:59 +0000 http://the-word-blog.com/?p=1034#comment-49 Hey, I learned something. I always thought the mark for making something lowercase was a diagonal slash through the capital. And it's weird, but I just learned the word "majuscule" today, only to read about it here. Maybe it's just my New Word Radar going off. Hey, I learned something. I always thought the mark for making something lowercase was a diagonal slash through the capital.

And it’s weird, but I just learned the word “majuscule” today, only to read about it here. Maybe it’s just my New Word Radar going off.

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