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How to pronounce uppercase in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms capital, capital letter, majuscule, upper-case letter
Type of graph, character, grapheme, graphic symbol
Has types small capital, small cap
Type Words


uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc.

Examples of uppercase

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Character names not for kanji use uppercase Roman letters, spaces, and hyphens.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, numbers and symbols is best.
From the thenewstribune.com
Don't use uppercase, italics, or bold for more than three or four words in a line.
From the usatoday.com
Most writing systems do not differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters.
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Anonymous with an uppercase A. It's a group of hacktivists, not random people.
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The Latin alphabet started out as roman square capitals, uppercase serifed letters.
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Smaller signs that use uppercase only, like stop and speed limit signs, won't change.
From the post-gazette.com
Their darn system insisted I HAD to use uppercase, lowercase, and numbers.
From the forbes.com
In the uppercase letters, the iota adscript may appear as subscript depending on font.
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More examples
  • Relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case; "uppercase letters; X and Y and Z etc"
  • Capital letters or majuscules are the larger of two type faces in a script. In the Roman alphabet they are A, B, C, D, etc. They are also called capitals (caps) or upper case (uppercase). ...
  • Alternative spelling of upper case; written in upper case; capital
  • A capital letter, so called because of the placement of capital letters in a printer's type case.
  • Adj. (of a character) being among standard characters corresponding to the capital letters A through Z, or being some other implementation-defined character that is defined by the implementation to be uppercase. See Section 13.1.4.3 (Characters With Case).
  • In typography, capital letters, which gained this alternative name from the standard location in which typesetters stored them.
  • More commonly known as capital letters. See definition of lowercase.
  • Capital letters of the alphabet, or those characters created by pressing the computer keyboard "shift" key in combination with another key. See also: lowercase.
  • Specifies that you want the statistics output in uppercase only. If you want output in mixed case (the default), do not code this parameter.