From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-10-14, Ross Clark  wrote:   
      
   > but bicamerality did not become general in europe until 1300   
   > and took some time to more or less stabilize in english   
   > you probably noticed in the text quoted yesterday from the time of henry   
   > iv, all nouns capitalized (as still in german)   
      
   In the 19th century, there was a fashion in the German linguistic   
   literature, I think, to abandon noun capitalization.  Notably the   
   _Deutsches Wörterbuch_ (German Dictionary) started by the Brothers   
   Grimm stuck to this.   
      
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