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The fifth edition (1936) maintains the same preferences, but adds an entry for lower case as a noun form: lower case Print. a See CASE, n., 6 ["Print. A shallow divided tray for type. The upper case contains capitals, accented and marked letters, etc.; the lower case contains the small letters, figures, etc."]. b Print in small letters. Abbr. l.c.
The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10.6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
With random case the rules of grammar that determine upper and lower case do not apply. Upper case or capital letters appear in a random sequence. Lower case letters also appear in a random sequence. Random refers to a pattern or series that has no pattern. This can be helpful for creating security codes. The random qualities can be unique.
The two ways to write lower-case a are called double-storey A (a) and single-storey A (ɑ). Single-storey is used for italics in most fonts. But why are there two different As? Back in ye olde days there were many ways to write a lower-case A. (The same went for other letters, for example þ was later written "y", hence "ye olde days".)
Standard terminology in the world of printing is "upper case" and "lower case." The letter in the text is marked by the proofreader with two short lines under it to indicate that it should be upper case (rather than lower), and in the margin the proofreader writes "uc" (or "lc") and circles it, so that the typesetting sees it. –
lower-case letters on scribble (apple watch) on my apple watch, when i search something, i use scribble and when i put the first letter in, it auto capitalizes. along for when i put in the password for my watch.
All titles should be in standard mixed case, where the first letter of each word is capitalized and followed by lower case letters, as noted below: Capitalize all nouns, verbs (including be, been, am, are, is, was, and were), adverbs, subordinating conjunctions (including if and as when it is not used as a preposition), adjectives (including so ...
It is "Upper case" to "capital letter" as "lower-case" is to "uncapitalized letter". (Uncapitalized is an adjective, so "uncapitalized word". There is no noun form, "Uncapital" or anything like, as far as I know, though "non-capital" might be intuitive in context)
The New York Times, for example, keeps "NATO" in all capitals (while several guides in the British press may render it "Nato"), but uses lower case in "UNICEF" (from "United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund") because it is more than four letters, and to style it in caps might look ungainly (flirting with the appearance of ...
The dictionaries and glossaries I've look at differ considerably in what they say about English appearing with a lower-case e when using the word for spin or side. No Mention: (Assumed upper-case only) Print OED: no mention Print The New Oxford American: no mention Online M-W: no mention Online Lexico: no mention