capitalisation
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right|thumb|The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and [[serif typefaces respectively|class=skin-invert-image]]
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- Description
- History
- Conventions
- Parts of speech
- Pronouns
- 2nd-person pronouns
- Nouns
- Adjectives
- Places and geographic terms
- By context
- Special cases
- Compound names
- Titles
- Acronyms
- "O"
- Accents
- Digraphs and ligatures
- Initial mutation
- Case-sensitive English words
- Capitalization styles
- Sentence case
- Title case
- All caps
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
right|thumb|The capital letter "A" in the Latin alphabet, followed by its lowercase equivalent, in sans serif and [[serif typefaces respectively|class=skin-invert-image]]
Capitalization (American English) or capitalisation (Commonwealth English) is the practice of writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (uppercase letter) and the remaining letters in lower case, in writing systems with a case distinction. The term also may refer to the use of uppercase letters in general, or the choice between uppercase and lowercase.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “capitalisation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.