Sunday, October 23, 2011

31 Days – day 23

Okay kids….it's time for a….

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Do you know why capital letters are called uppercase and small letters are referred to as lowercase?

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Well – before computers (yes there was a time when we had no computers) there dwelled typesetters.  They had trays of letters that were put in order to form the words to be printed.  Lots and lots of letters.  They couldn't just throw them all in a big box and search and search so they stacked them in cases and stored them on a shelf.  The capital letters were shelved in the top case or upper case on the shelf and the small letters in the lower case.  Get it? Uppercase. Lowercase.

It really wasn't fair to throw a pop quiz at you soo…..you all get an…

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Have a wonderful Sunday.  xo Nancy

3 comments:

  1. You know I never even thought about why they were called upper case and lower case. Very interesting. Maybe someday I'll be on a quiz show and that will be the question. If so, I'll split my millions with you. :)

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  2. I did not KNOW that!!! Wow, Nancy. . . this quest of yours is really helping all of us in so many ways!!!

    L, Dana

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  3. You are entertaining as well as informational on this 31 day tour!

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