majuscules

• “Le mot anglais wasp signifie guêpe mais, quand il est écrit en majuscules, il est un acronyme : White Anglo-Saxon Protestant WASP.”

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• “Reviewing a tract he wrote that was available online until yesterday, we noticed that he tends to spell the word JEW in majuscules and use it as an adjective as well as a noun, a practice straight out of the Anti-Semitic Manual of Style.”

  The Wall Street Journal: 'Them Jews'

• “A Web site called EarthHour. org, apparently unconcerned about the carbon footprint of majuscules, urges global warmists to "VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR" starting at 8: 30 p.m. tomorrow.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Turn On, Tune In

• “Example sentence:My sister uses elaborate majuscules that dwarf the other letters.”

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• “Its brevity equalled its mystery; it consisted but of five words, the first and last in imposing majuscules.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847

• “Book and chapter headings printed wholly in majuscules.”

  Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University

• “Sentences begin with majuscules and are separated by points”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

• “That original might have had one full line, or two lines, of majuscules, perhaps, following pretty closely the lines in _Π_, which has the same amount of text, plus the first three letters of SPURINNAM, in the first two lines.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “Now, granted for a moment that the last of our stemmata is correct, _X_, from which _Π_ and _B_ descend, being earlier than _Π_, must have been a manuscript in majuscules, written in Italy, since that is unquestionably the provenience of _Π_.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

• “In the section included in _Π_, apart from the general tightness of the writing, which led to the later insertion of strokes between many of the words, [35] we note these special indications of a parent manuscript in majuscules.”

  A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York

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