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- # Capital Letters
## Overview
This section, titled "Capital letters.", is part of a larger collection of facsimile editions of Shakespeare's works, specifically focusing on "Venus and Adonis, Lucrece, Sonnets, and Pericles". It was extracted from a text file named `pdf-01KG6Q7Q25RHMFT3SJXPV18VFF.txt` and is situated within the broader collection "PDF Workflow Main Test 2026-01-30T00:26:53". The section spans lines 939 to 942 of the source document.
## Context
This section is one of many that analyze textual variations and potential printing errors within the early editions of Shakespeare's works. It follows a section discussing "Discrepancies of spelling." and precedes a section on "Inflexional irregularities." The analysis within this section points to inconsistencies in the capitalization of common nouns, suggesting potential issues with the printing process or manuscript transcription.
## Contents
The text of this section details the irregular use of capital letters for common nouns within the analyzed text. It provides specific examples, such as the word "boar" being capitalized inconsistently, and lists other words like "Eagle," "Primrose," and "Queen" that are capitalized without apparent reason. The author notes that hundreds of similar words are printed without any distinguishing mark, highlighting a pattern of inconsistency in the text's capitalization.
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Even thus the catalogue of irregularities is unexhausted, Capital letters for common nouns within the lines are used sparingly but with the utmost irregularity.¹ The word ‘boar’, which occurs seventeen times, is thrice honoured with a capital B; ‘horse’ is similarly treated twice out of eight times; ‘lions’ once of three times; and ‘queen’ four of six times. Among some other words which bear a capital initial without reasonable cause, are ‘Eagle’ (55), ‘Primrose’ (151), ‘Painter’ (289), ‘Ouen’ (331), ‘Moone’ (492), ‘Caterpillers’ (798), ‘Tapsters’ (849), and ‘Tygre’ (1096). It is easy to produce hundreds of like words which are printed without any distinguishing mark.
Inflexional irregularities.
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