Re: national lowercase day (14 october)

On 2024-10-14, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

but bicamerality did not become general in europe until 1300
and took some time to more or less stabilize in english
you probably noticed in the text quoted yesterday from the time of henry
iv, all nouns capitalized (as still in german)

In the 19th century, there was a fashion in the German linguistic
literature, I think, to abandon noun capitalization.  Notably the
_Deutsches Wörterbuch_ (German Dictionary) started by the Brothers
Grimm stuck to this.

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