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\nThe ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it...\nThe ancient alphabet was a single scratchy list of letters. So where did BIG UPPERCASE and little lowercase forms of our alphabet come from? Take a look at the history of our strange writing system and wonder... Who came first? Was it those rambunctious CAPITALIZERS or the fancy but timid minusculizers? Who made scripts join forces to form one superalphabet? Roman soldiers? Medieval scribes? Are camels to blame for CamelCase? Why does something about these letters remind me of Arabic, even though Arabic doesn't capitalize its letters? Word of the day: bicameral. Sorry, BiCaMeRaL. You'll see. CREDITS Art, animation and music by NativLang ~ CC-BY and Public Domain images ~ Greek inscription at Korykian, Zde Forum inscription with lizard, Anthony M from Rome Carolingian minuscule, Beinecke Digital Collections Codex Aureus, Vitold Muratov Mt. Athos Dionys. Cod. 587 Cyril and Methodius, Radek Linner Old Bulgarian alphabet, Vakots7 Russian Azbuka Benois Oifig na bPassana, Jnestorius Syriac Sertâ manuscript, Schøyen Collection MS 577 Any CC-BY stuff not mentioned here is listed in the credits for Thoth's Pill Thank you for your kind words, encouragement and your excitement about language!\n
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