A Capital Read!

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Thomas observes:
"First, I thought it does follow the German rules, but then it doesn't,
because there are mid-sentence adjectives that are capitalized and they
are certainly not in German. I think both spelling and capitalization are
nilly-willy as they were back then. I mean, this wasn't yet the age of
Common Spelling Rules."


They were becoming standardized--Swift and others wanted regularity in all
things and Dr. Johnson among others tried to oblige with his dictionary.

But we might also want to look at American antecedents--especially the
quirky capitals of Emily Dickinson.

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN0