tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post4535569753142788888..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Declaration of Independence and Big CapitalUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-61180385622077465042013-06-29T17:03:18.747-05:002013-06-29T17:03:18.747-05:00Conversely, if a Printer capitalizes all Nouns, th...Conversely, if a Printer capitalizes all Nouns, then he uses fewer of the Letters from the lower Case, spreading out the Burden and minimizing the Risk of running out of those lowercase Letters. <br /><br />I suspect that the Art of Printing had developed enough by the eighteenth Century that Printers knew how much Type they had to buy—which Letters in which Quantities—to keep a Shop running. As long as they or their Apprentices distributed the Type, all would be well. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-49596340171594229832013-06-29T16:29:55.426-05:002013-06-29T16:29:55.426-05:00Make sense. Seems to me that a newspaper printer, ...Make sense. Seems to me that a newspaper printer, knowing that he'd have multiple pages to typeset, would make his "house style" the one that used fewer capitals in general. He'd be saving a finite number of type pieces to use only when really necessary, as in proper nouns, place names, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-38619407701103467882013-06-28T08:12:15.403-05:002013-06-28T08:12:15.403-05:00...but you find so much more historical informatio......but you find so much more historical information on the internet by searching for "Bofton" and "Caftle Ifland". :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-19860161190137420102013-06-27T15:22:56.536-05:002013-06-27T15:22:56.536-05:00The difference in capitalization and my constant r...The difference in capitalization and my constant reading of 18th Century documents has ruined my ability to capitalize correctly in modern grammatical settings.Robert S. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208771657848284055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-16166344601395854582013-06-27T14:42:16.729-05:002013-06-27T14:42:16.729-05:00I can imagine a printer coming to the end of a new...I can imagine a printer coming to the end of a newspaper page and fudging a bit on the style he (or occasionally she) had chosen, but it seems impractical to count up the number of different letters in a text before deciding on a style. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-35121584356741759982013-06-27T14:34:32.894-05:002013-06-27T14:34:32.894-05:00I always find the Language of the founding Era Fas...I always find the Language of the founding Era Fascinating, aside from those infernal Long S's. (I wonder how much the fact that typesetters only had certain amounts of letters to set newspapers and broadsides with could influence their use of upper case or lower?!)John L Smith Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04209064146960498237noreply@blogger.com