{"id":4793,"date":"2011-02-24T10:18:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:51:08","slug":"where-upper-case-and-lower-case-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/where-upper-case-and-lower-case-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where &#8220;Upper Case&#8221; and &#8220;Lower Case&#8221; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/upper-case-lower-case.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4794\" title=\"upper-case-lower-case\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/upper-case-lower-case.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/upper-case-lower-case.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/upper-case-lower-case-340x285.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What the Dot Over the Lower Case Letter i Is called\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/what-the-dot-over-the-lower-case-letter-i-is-called\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the Dot Over the Lower Case Letter &#8220;i&#8221; is Called<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The terms \u201cupper case\u201d and \u201clower case\u201d actually come to us quite recently, from the early days of the printing press.\u00a0 At this time, the letter blocks themselves were stored in specially organized boxes called cases.\u00a0 By convention, the cases containing the capital letters were stored higher than those containing the smaller versions of the letters.\u00a0 If one single case had compartments for all the letter blocks, the capital letters were stored in the back so that when the case was set upright, angled, they were higher, hence \u201cupper case\u201d and \u201clower case\u201d.\u00a0 There were also several other such conventions with the storing of these letter blocks to make it easy for the compositor to set the type.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn What the Dot Over the Lower Case Letter &#8220;i&#8221; is Called Text Version The terms \u201cupper case\u201d and \u201clower case\u201d actually come to us quite recently, from the early days of the printing press.\u00a0 At this time, the letter blocks themselves were stored in specially organized boxes called cases.\u00a0 By convention, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1267,1266],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-lower-case","tag-etymology-upper-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}