The terms upper-case and lower-case to designate the size of letters stem from printer’s slang from the days of typesetting. Since they used small letters most of the time, so they were kept in a case that was lower, and therefore more easily...
Stereotyped notice in Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass points back to printing, not to a social generalization. Sidney from Indianapolis, Indiana, noticed the phrase in Douglass’s line about a meeting called under the...
Everyone knows the term stereotype, but did you ever stop to wonder what the word has to do with stereos? Not much, really. But it does derive from the world of printing. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Etymology of...