/oss/taxonomy/term/3866/all en /oss/article/did-you-know-history/why-it-called-upper-and-lower-case <p>When you spend hours proofreading and retyping essays, you get to wondering- why do <span>we refer to large letters as upper case, and small as lower case? It’s actually a remnant </span><span>of a past where printing presses had manually set letters. Small letters, which were used </span><span>the majority of the time, were kept in the lower, easier to access case. Where as large </span><span>letters were kept in the upper. Also interesting to note is that capitalization belongs to </span><span>the script, not the language.</span></p> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 22:59:18 +0000 Ada McVean B.Sc. 2537 at /oss