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  1. single word requests - Is ‘casing’ a valid alternative to ...

    Oct 11, 2017 · Because casing is commonly used here on the English Language 🙵 Usage SE to ask whether a word is capitalized or not, I'm still wondering whether casing is a valid alternative to …

  2. What is the outer metal/plastic box of a device called?

    Feb 19, 2020 · 1 Case and Chassis are used pretty often as some of the comments indicate. Other similar words are tower, system unit and cabinet. Also, holder is often used for additional external …

  3. "Lowercase", "lower-case", or "lower case" - English Language & Usage ...

    Feb 27, 2012 · Of, printed, or formatted in lowercase letters. | tr.v. -cased, -casing, -cases To put (type or text) in lowercase letters. — lowercase n. (It might for a moment appear that AHDEL is endorsing …

  4. grammar - "And " vs "Or" when using respectively - English Language ...

    Jun 17, 2024 · I want to reduce my sentence to a shorter sentence. My actual intention is: In real-type representations, k is 1, in complex-type representations, k is 2, and in quaternion-type …

  5. When should we capitalize the beginning of a quotation?

    May 2, 2023 · Basically, I am somewhat confused when a quotation should be capitalized. My understanding is that if a) one quotes the full original sentence and b) this quotation is set off by a …

  6. How should the abbreviation for "identifier" be capitalized?

    Mar 23, 2015 · I'm a programmer and I often see the abbreviation ID (capitalized) in technical documents and code. Is this correct, or should it be id?

  7. What is the verb that means to capitalize the first letter of a word ...

    Proper Casing Is Not "In Programming Community", It's Just a VB Thing. It differ from Title Case that latter doesn't capitalize articles, pronouns and some conjutives.

  8. punctuation - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange

    Oct 28, 2023 · I'm not finding the answer to this on the internet after searching. When writing dialogue, do you use capital letters to spell out words? Jamie said, "I said P-L-E-A-S-E please, and don't …

  9. Should "the park" be capitalized when referring to Central Park?

    Aug 24, 2024 · Thus one can find the occasional (ie smallish minority usage) lower-casing of 'parliament' when it is obviously being used as a title, as in Av Dicey said that parliament can make or unmake …

  10. How do you spell wifi / Wi-Fi / WiFi? - English Language & Usage Stack ...

    Sep 9, 2011 · The Wi-Fi Alliance is just a trade association. They won't come knocking on your door in the middle of the night if you use their terminology. They're only interested in shutting out …