RE: How well understood is sentence case?

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Cardimon, Craig wrote: 
 
> Is there a well understood term for describing a string of 
> characters where the first letter is uppercase and the rest 
> are lowercase?
> 
> Title Case seems "official," sentence case less so.

Well, a Google search for "title case" (with quotes) returns 214,000
results, while a search for "sentence case" (with quotes) returns only
94,900 -- so I suppose it's valid to say the term is less commonly used.
Both searches return irrelevant law-related results ("death sentence
case," "Raytheon title case"), but there are plenty of hits that suggest
the term is well-understood and "official" (Wikipedia, Answers.com,
UsabilityNews.com). 

FWIW, though, your definition seems ambiguous (depending on context, of
course) because it also describes a one-word title or label using title
case. I think a sentence case definition needs to speak of multiple
words, only the first of which begins with an uppercase letter (with
appropriate exceptions like proper names noted). 

Richard


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