Rogers lost out on the word "majuscule," which is a large-typeface, capital letter used in conjunction with smaller script in printing or writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Gazette-Enterprise: News] Reference
He said he chose to carve the speech in Roman majuscule, the capital letters first used on structures built in 2nd-century Rome. From Wordnik.com. [Restoration work at JFK grave site begins] Reference
In honor of all the politicking, I give you one of my favorite political poems, this by e.e. cummings, of the famous minuscule vs majuscule debate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Lemparius was a fool to think his wereman cloak would enhance either his anatomy or performance to majuscule proportions; worse, he had allowed her beautiful barbarian to escape!. From Wordnik.com. [Conan the Fearless]
As mentioned earlier, different typefaces are employed in the text, including a super-sized "RIVERS" in the sentence pg 7, "And yet in this tales of Fathers and Crows, the word writ in grandest majuscule must be RIVERS.". From Wordnik.com. [Black Market Kidneys » Fathers And Crows: pp. 1-106] Reference
When Wolin requested that Derrida share those reasons with him privately, Derrida refused to do so, beyond insisting (in majuscule, no less) that his judgment of the book was "essentiellement NEGATIVE je le répète, NEGATIVE" (letter of May 1, 1992). From Wordnik.com. ['L'affaire Derrida'] Reference
In the main foreign tourists a gasket to Kiev - the majuscule of Ukraine and the biggest global airport. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
As you pointed out, the wiki does not care whether the first letter of the title is majuscule or minuscule. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The phrases are separated by points and begin with a majuscule letter in capital or uncial; the abbreviations are few. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The majuscule letters, called capitals, used to begin sentences or proper names, are always borrowed from uncial or capital writing. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The majuscule cursive, which is that of the ancient papyri, is distinguished from the minuscule cursive, used on the papyri of the sixth and seventh centuries. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The epigraphical, or elegant, capital, similar to the ordinary majuscule of our printed books, was used in Manuscripts, but there exist only rare specimens of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
The majuscule "S" gets you the headers and the "- O / dev / null" dumps the file you're about to retrieve in the bit bucket (rather than into your home directory or where ever). From Wordnik.com. [almost effortless] Reference
Not just letter overtyped over letter, word over word, but the careful pattern, the patter, the typewritten patter, of minuscule and majuscule, not an error but a reason, an eye for design. From Wordnik.com. [dbqp: visualizing poetics] Reference
A debate is under way about what precisely conservatism is now: is it mainstream, or "Liberal" the majuscule is important, as it was with the Liberal Unionists of the generation after 1886?. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The papyri of the Byzantine period (sixth and seventh centuries) show the minuscule cursive, distinguished from the majuscule cursive by the greater ease with which the letters are joined by means of ligatures, and by more frequent abbreviations. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
There’s no grammatical reason for doing so, and oddly enough, the majuscule “I” appears only in English. From Wordnik.com. [Why Does the English Language Capitalize The Word ‘I’? | Disinformation] Reference
Va=majuscule http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HOT-TYPE MEMORIES.] Reference
# uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" wordnetweb. princeton.edu/perl/webwn. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
(the calamite’s columitas calling for calamitous calamitance) who that scrutinising marvels at those indignant whiplooplashes; those so prudently bolted or blocked rounds; the touching reminiscence of an incompletet trail or dropped final; a round thousand whirligig glorioles, prefaced by (alas!) now illegible airy plumeflights, all tiberiously ambiembellishing the initials majuscule of Earwicker: the meant to be baffling chrismon trilithon sign, finally called after some his hes hecitency Hec, which, moved contra-watchwise, represents his title in sigla as the smaller, fontly called following a certain change of state of grace of nature alp or delta, when single, stands for or tautologically stands beside the consort: (though for that matter, since we have heard from. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
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