Re: national lowercase day (14 october)

On 2024-10-15, Ross Clark <benlizro@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

I meant to mention that something like this capitalization practice
persisted in English at least until late in the 18th century. [...]
This looks roughly like capitalization of lexical words for emphasis,
rather than on any grammatical basis.

My go-to example is the original text of the United States Declaration
of Independence.

I think I've also seen it in some French texts from that time.
There's probably an archive of revolutionary pamphlets somewhere.

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