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, 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], 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, 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, 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.

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, 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, 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, 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, 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^[3], 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), 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, 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, 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, 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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