Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
It is to be noted that the peculiar capitalization in
the articles of
the Constitution does not generally extend to the amendments. The
latest amendment to have any of these antiquated capitalization was the
12th and it went through Congress in 1803. Deos the use of the word
"Citizens" in the 11th amendment mean anything different than the word
"citizens" in the 26th?
Neither is the use of any German word that is capitalized in standard
texts changed in those texts that do not employ that language's unusual
capitalization standards. It is decorative, an aid to reading, and
little more.
I was looking for a scanned copy of the original
Constitution but the
only one that I did find was not readable. If you really want to be
accurate about 18th century texts, maybe we should be considering
support of the long "s".
Yes, I have been using long ſ, whenever it occurs, in the texts I have
been citing when giving quotations for la.wiktionary, e.g. under
http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bisemutum -- it comes up so often that
I memorized the keyboard shortcut for it some time ago (it is 'alt-0383').
But then, I often use ſ in handwriting, so perhaps I'm biased.
*Muke!
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