Timeline for Different way to refer to a 'lowercase' letter?
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| Mar 6, 2020 at 20:00 | vote | accept | AJMansfield | ||
| Dec 21, 2014 at 4:07 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 21, 2014 at 3:41 | answer | added | J Smart | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 1, 2014 at 18:30 | comment | added | bye | The complement to initial is body. Minuscule and majuscule are lettering styles, and do not necessarily correspond to lowercase and uppercase, since the entire text can be written or set in one or the other (viz. Carolingian minuscule). It happens to be the case that in most current typefaces, uppercase letters are majuscules and lowercase letters are minuscules, but it's not necessarily the case. | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 16:13 | answer | added | Abernasty | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 16:10 | comment | added | AJMansfield | @JanusBahsJacquet I just edited my question; what I am looking for is a name for lowercase letters that is more directly complementary to "capital" or "initial". | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 16:09 | history | edited | AJMansfield | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | You already have somewhere around three and a half sets of synonym pairs for this (which is rather more than you'd get for most things)—what makes you think there are even more? And why would you need or even want any more? | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 1:38 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/418556751760613376 | ||
| Jan 2, 2014 at 1:10 | answer | added | whippoorwill | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 0:56 | comment | added | Blessed Geek | Why break from industry norm/standard? Would we have to no longer dial a cell phone, watch a film, read news from the press, etc, etc? | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 0:18 | comment | added | Peter Shor | The fact that both big letter and large letter are quite a bit less common than small letter makes me think that small letter has generally been used as the opposite of capital letter. See Ngram. (Little letter is also common, but it usually seems to mean short missive.) | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 0:03 | answer | added | Newb | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jan 2, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | Peter Shor | You left out majuscule and minuscule. | |
| Jan 1, 2014 at 23:37 | history | asked | AJMansfield | CC BY-SA 3.0 |