Appendix:Small caps

Translingual

Typographical usage

[small caps]

1. Used for emphasis.
   • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (in English), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 59–60:

     ‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.

2. Used at the beginning of a text.
   • 2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep‎^[1] (in English), New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 117:

     jill and i were married by a catholic priest at the United Nations chapel in New York City in June 1977.

   • 2012 February 29, Troy Denning, Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse‎^[2] (in English), Random House, →ISBN, page 3:

     The starliner swung into orbit around the planet Coruscant, and beyond the observation bubble appeared a glittering expanse of a billion golden lights. Through a thousand centuries of strife, those lights continued to shine.

3. Used to separate from other text.
   • 1796, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “To a Young Ass, It's Mother Being Tethered Near It”, in Poems on Various Subjects (in English), London: […] G[eorge] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinsons, and J[oseph] Cottle, […], →OCLC, page 93:

     And fain would take thee with me, in the Dell / Of Peace and mild Equality to dwell, / Where Toil ſhall call the charmer Health his Bride, / And Laughter tickle Plenty's ribleſs fide!

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15: Circe]”, in Ulysses (in English), Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 500:

     bello (Shouts.) Good, by the rumping jumping general!

4. Used instead of capital letters.
   • 1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X (in English), New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111:

     Claire and I met Mr. and Mrs. M., “Phil ‘n’ Irene,” one delicious day months ago when we looked over the fence and were assaulted by miasmic wafts of smoke and a happy holler from Mr. M. wearing a dinner’s on apron.

   • 1998, William Hallberg, The Soul of Golf (in English), page 267:

     A bumper sticker is affixed to the trunk of her Civic: my karma ran over your dogma.

   • 2024 August 5, Clare Malone, “What Does Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Actually Want?”, in The New Yorker‎^[3] (in English), New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-08-05:

     When the Department of Homeland Security denied his requests for a Secret Service detail—typically, such protection is provided only to “major” candidates—the campaign made T-shirts featuring an image of Kennedy, in an airport, wearing a full suit but no shoes or socks, with the words “no shirt no shoes no secret service.”

5. (linguistics) Used to analyze the morphology and tag (gloss) the parts of speech in a sentence.

   3fs.subj love-3sg.pres.ind

6. Used in IPA.

   ʀ (uvular trill)

7. Used when mentioning another entry or part of the same work, or the work as a whole.
   • 1792, Encyclopædia Britannica; or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, on a Plan Entirely New, volume IX (in English), Dublin: James Moore, page 171, column 1:

     INDENTURE, in Law, a writing which compriſes ſome contract between two at leaſt being indented at top, anſwerable to another part which has the ſame contents. See Deed.

   • 1960, The American City (in English), page 99:

     […] Company tried public reaction to its initial placement of a new type outside telephone booth along the boulevard (page 44, The American City, April 1960).

8. Used for acronyms and initialisms.
   • 1905, Edward Harper Parker, “Confucianism”, in China and Religion (in English), New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton and Company, pages 67–68:

     There was the school of simplicity, socialism, and universal love, the head of which was a Quixotic Diogenes called Mêh-tsz or Meccius (fifth century b.c.); […]

   • 2022, Nigel Hamilton, “The Missing Key: Theorizing Modern Historical Biography”, in Hans Renders, David Veltman, editors, Fear of Theory: Towards a New Theoretical Justification of Biography (in English), Brill, →ISBN, part I (Reflections on Theory and Biography), page 39:

     Who would dare theorize the history and practice of jazz without taking into account its significant composers, vocalists and instrumentalists from their pov?

   • 2022 July 1, Robin Wright, “The West Débuts a New Strategy to Confront a Historic “Inflection Point””, in The New Yorker‎^[4] (in English), New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-01:

     The last time nato leaders hashed out a new global strategy, in 2010, the alliance officially embraced Russia.

9. Used where the Tetragrammaton would be.
   • 1610, The Second Tome of the Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible) (in English), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Psalmes 8:2, page 26:

     O Lord our Lord, how meruelous is thy name in the whole earth!

   • 1815, Robert Lowth, translated by G[eorge] Gregory, Lectures on the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews (in English), Boston, Mass.: […] Joseph T. Buckingham, […], page 393:

     “O Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, / “When thou proceededst from the plains of Edom; / “The earth was moved, the heavens dropped, / “The clouds also dropped water; / “The mountains melted from before the face of Jehovah. / “Sinah itself from before Jehovah, the God of Israel.”

10. Used for some titles.
    • 2019, Clint Enns, “Hardware Hacking, Software Modding, and File Manipulation: Process Cinema in the Digital Age”, in Scott MacKenzie, Janine Marchessault, editors, Process Cinema: Handmade Film in the Digital Age (in English), McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 492:

      As well, director Ray Tintori released a comprehensive, three-part YouTube tutorial titled “how to datamosh,” and Tom Butterworth has written software for Quartz Composer that allows you to datamosh and play with compression artifacts in real time.

    • 2022 February 9, Dan Bolles, “Love Language”, in Seven Days (in English), page 29:

      But, given the name of their podcast, “couples therapy in seven words,” it wouldn’t surprise us if the South Burlington spouses enjoyed a good word game.

11. Used to indicate the surname by which someone with a long formal name is to be designated in the rest of a written work.

    Don Quixote de La Mancha

See also

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