Upper and lower must be references to the height of the letters, and the use of case is presumably an offshoot of its “condition” sense. But that’s actually not the case. The earliest ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while non ...

American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, Black, Hispanic or Latino, Middle Eastern or North African, multiracial, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, White. The reason for this discrepancy is ...