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  2. Capitalization in English - Wikipedia

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    Capitalization or capitalisation in English grammar is the ... the practice faded in Britain so that by the beginning of the 19th century common nouns were only ...

  3. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Do not use superscripts (19 th century). Do not capitalize (the best Nineteenth-century paintings; during the Nineteenth Century) Do not use Roman numerals (XVIII century). The 18th century refers to the period (1701–1800), while strictly the 1700s refers either to (1700–1799) or (1700–1709)

  4. 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 ...

  5. Victorian letter writing guides - Wikipedia

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    As the use of letters increased in popularity, guides began to emerge on how to correctly write and form a letter and as to what was proper, and what was not. Many of these Victorian conventions are a way of understanding tensions in nineteenth-century England, such as the urge to speak from the heart, but never more than was proper. [citation ...

  6. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Emphasis is provided by using italics, used for key words, stage directions and the names of characters, and capitalization of key words. There are many designs. With both italics and boldface, the emphasis is correctly achieved by swapping into a different font of the same family; for example by replacing body text in Arial with its bold or ...

  7. 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.

  8. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    The 19th century brought fewer stylistic innovations. The most notable invention was the rise of typefaces with strengthened serifs. Forerunners were the so-called Egyptienne fonts, which were used already at the beginning of the 19th century.

  9. Watered stock - Wikipedia

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    To indicate that the stock is not watered, this stock certificate declares the par value of $10 per share "full paid and non-assessable." American stock promoters in the late 1800s could inflate their claims about a company's assets and profitability, and sell stocks and bonds in excess of the company's actual value.