Majuscules and minuscules
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Tue Nov 17 21:47:12 UTC 2009
In Latin-based scripts and a few others, majuscules are used to
indicate proper nouns (people, places, organizations, etc.)
Are there any scripts where a different technique is used to
distinguish proper from common nouns? A kind of diacritical
marking? An additional word or particle? Etc.
Joel
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