Uppercase and lowercase letters get their names from where they were stored in traditional printing trays. Rating: True (About this rating?) For years, social media users have claimed that the ...

Q I have text in an e-mail message that was typed in capital letters, and I’d like to convert it to standard uppercase and lowercase letters. Is there a way to do this, or am I stuck retyping?

The origin of the terms uppercase and lowercase might seem pretty self-explanatory.Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of ...

Finally, there are the purists, lowercase zealots and dedicated fontanistas who take pride in making big statements with little letters. Not only do they adopt the lowercase look, they are ...

Unicode contains characters from various languages, including the Latin alphabet, but there are only four characters that have separate types registered in addition to 'uppercase' and 'lowercase ...

U.S. Navy Approves Use Of Lowercase Letters : The Two-Way Since the early days of Morse code, the Navy and Marines have been using all uppercase letters in official fleet communications.

Well, now for another mind-melter ― there’s a very good reason why we call uppercase and lowercase letters what we do, and it’s because of the original printing presses.

Dave wraps up the shell-script L33t generator. Last time, I talked about what's known informally as l33t-speak, a series of letter and letter-pair substitutions that marks the jargon of the hacker ...

Lowercase and uppercase letters were stored in separate type cases, hence the names. Usually the letters used more frequently (the lowercase) were kept closer (or lower) on a ...