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Have you noticed that some people are spelling their names using all lower-case letters?
We have.
And that got us wondering about why people choose to do this, and where all the capitalization rules came from.
It's a perfect chance to turn to our language expert: Anne Curzan is a professor of English at the University of Michigan, and can be heard every weekend with Rina Miller on That's What They Say.
Curzan weighs in on caps or no caps.
Anne Curzan talks about capitalization rules.
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