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  2. Capitalization - Wikipedia

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    The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and serif typefaces respectively. Capitalization (American spelling; also British spelling in Oxford) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English; all other meanings) is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing ...

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization.In English, capitalization is primarily needed for proper names, acronyms, and for the first letter of a sentence. [a] Wikipedia relies on sources to determine what is conventionally capitalized; only words and phrases that are consistently capitalized in a substantial majority of independent, reliable sources are capitalized in Wikipedia.

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    Capitalize: Put text in capital case sc: Small caps: Put text in small caps wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font wc/ww: word choice/wrong word: Incorrect or awkward word choice hr # Insert hair space: s/b: should be: Selection should be whatever edit follows this mark s/r: substitute/replace: Make the substitution tr: transpose: Transpose ...

  5. Latin alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The rules for capitalization have changed over time, and different languages have varied in their rules for capitalization. Old English , for example, was rarely written with even proper nouns capitalized, whereas Modern English writers and printers of the 17th and 18th century frequently capitalized most and sometimes all nouns; [ 5 ] for ...

  6. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    Start case (First letter of each word capitalized) "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" Start case, initial caps or proper case is a simplified variant of title case. In text processing, start case usually involves the capitalisation of all words irrespective of their part of speech. All caps (all uppercase)

  7. Case variants of IPA letters - Wikipedia

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    Capital variants of the IPA letters used in English, as designed by Michael Everson. [1]With the adoption of letters from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) in various national alphabets, letter case forms have been developed.

  8. German orthography - Wikipedia

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    A typical feature of German spelling is the general capitalization of nouns and of most nominalized words. In addition, capital letters are used: ... ß, x, z, ce ...

  9. Oxford spelling - Wikipedia

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    Oxford spelling (also Oxford English Dictionary spelling, Oxford style, or Oxford English spelling) is a spelling standard, named after its use by the Oxford University Press, that prescribes the use of British spelling in combination with the suffix -ize in words like realize and organization instead of -ise endings.