Capitalization

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William was inconsistent in capitalization, often following the German custom in which nouns are capitalized but adjectives, even adjectival forms of proper names like “English” or “German,” are not. He was not consistent with either nouns or adjectives, however. Frequently he ran sentences together, with or without commas or other punctuation, and often without capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

The transcription reproduces what he actually wrote.