Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for March 23, 2014

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    jgreathead  almost 11 years ago

    Hand set lead-cast printing type used to be divided into two cases, one for capital letters and one for small letters, arranged one above the other, hence upper and lower case. It was supplanted by the California job case which combined the two, used to this day in its now very limited, mostly hobby, service.

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    ComicGent  almost 11 years ago

    I also think “upper and lower case” long pre-dates lino type machines, and goes back to the very early days of printing with moveable type.

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    luvcmx  almost 11 years ago

    Is Cynthia channelling Caulfield from Frazz? Can you imagine the offspring of the two of them?

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    lisbethtraumwasser  almost 11 years ago

    In the West text was written in majuscule (upper case) without punctuation, until the time of Charlemagne, at which point many reforms were instituted. The use of minuscule (lower case) was popularized.

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    sbchamp  almost 11 years ago

    STILL huntin’ that sarcasm font!

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    saxie5  almost 11 years ago

    Teacher: Well, Cynthia, since you are so interested, why don’t you write a report on it and have it on my desk in the morning. Thanks.

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    ARodney  over 10 years ago

    Yes. But in the Middle Ages, in cursive penmanship, they weren’t called “upper case” and “lower case.” “Capitals,” or as mentioned above, “majuscule” and “miniscule.” Those terms are from hand typesetting, even though the letter styles themselves are much older.

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    EchoGirl21  almost 9 years ago

    First B & C comic i ever read.

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    wordsmeet  about 3 years ago

    Cynthia may be a hellraiser, but sometimes these situations indicate a degree of teaching incompetence. Teacher can always say “I’ll answer your question at the end of the class.”

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