For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while ...
Mental Floss on MSN
The Surprisingly Literal Reason We Call Letters “Uppercase” and “Lowercase”
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 ...
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This is why we call capitalized letters 'uppercase' and noncapitalized letters 'lowercase'
Uppercase and lowercase letters get their names from where they were stored in traditional printing trays. Rating: True ...
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