lowercase L


lowercase L is a blog dedicated to the misuse of the letter L. Blogger William Levin explains:
I have noticed that, when people create handwritten signs, they sometimes choose to capitalize every letter except the letter "L". I can understand using some lowercase letters like "i" and "y", to stylize the handwriting. But why confuse matters by using the only letter that, when lowercase, is identical to an uppercase "I"?

I have seen this before, but I didn’t know it was so common! Link -via mental_floss

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If you look at the guy's blog, there are lots of phot examples given. Fair enough... If you examine these, though, you'll see many of the letters suffer from misused case. You'll see a small "i" in the middle of a bunch of upper case words, and capital "A" amongst lower case letters. And there are others... The "L" is hardly the only victim. It does look worse (IMO), though as the lowercase L should read as an "I".
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Not so sure this doesn't make sense. . . Look at the sign above, is there any room for the _ on the L . . . Not really. Either they have to change the font size or cut off the _'s You all got the point. . . What's the problem?
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I saw the news wires carrying this and they referred to it as a moose. I was immediately struck by two thoughts.

Thought #1: Was moose looking for squirrel?

Thought #2: I think that's the møøse that once bit my sister.

doesn't work so well with elk does it.
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it's a moose... not an elk - the head gives it away. I was just in Sweden. It's a female mouse hence no antlers. Elk look like rein deer, this appears to be a young moose though.
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As Andrew said, moose is elk in Europe. Also, male elk lose their antlers every year and grow a new set each spring, so lack of antlers is not a definite mark of a female animal.
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