Talk:Capital letter
Some languages use only majuscules.
- What exactly does this mean? I assume it to be a reference to the fact that most writing systems do not have a majuscule/minuscule distinction, in which case it seems meaningless to say that they use majuscules. --Brion 23:25 Aug 19, 2002 (PDT)
- I agree. I've edited the sentence (and the following one) accordingly. I've also stuck in a reference to the use of uppercase and lowercase in computing circles (where people generally don't talk about majuscules or even capital letters). Magnus 12:42 Apr 24, 2003 (UTC)
Capitalization is the writing of a word with its first letter in uppercase and the remaining letters in lowercase.
Capitalization custom varies with language. In Latin and ancient Greek, only proper nouns are capitalized. In most modern languages, the first word in a sentence is capitalized as well. In the English language the word I is always capitalized, and many authors capitalize all words in a title exept conjunctions and articles.
Many other languages, such as German and French, capitalize all nouns.
above previously at capitalisation