. UPPER CASE LETTERS
. lower case letters
How could I not know til now that the terms we use to describe the size of the written alphabet is tied to a dead technology?
The BIG letters were in the top of a printer's suitcase-sized type rack, the small ones in the bottom.
Letterpress printing, killed in the late 1960s by offset, produced these crazy words.
Teachers now call them Capital Letters and the other ones Itsy Bitsy Little Babies.
I blush, since I spent a couple years cursing those individual, damn backwards-letters each midnight at the Daily Orange.
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