case sensitivity

[David Dyer-Bennet]

In article <871 at twwells.uucp> bill at twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
:In article <1320 at ns.network.com> ddb at ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
:: Casing rules in English are generally formal, not substantive, and
:: therefore I consider case to be essentially not significant in normal
:: English usage.
:
:	March vs. march?
:	May vs. may?
:	August vs. august?
etc.

But in practice nobody gets particularly bent out of shape if somebody writes
"Well, then we won't have the blasted thing done until august, I guess."
The formal convention is there, but it doesn't seem to be what people use
for figuring out the meaning of the sentence.

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