> According to the article, it's a "modification of a previously popular case, the Italic..." It's plausible that decisions made in the 1500s carried forward. S

> According to the article, it's a "modification of a previously popular case, the Italic..." It's plausible that decisions made in the 1500s carried forward. Sort of like how we all type on QUERTY keyboards, even though we're using machines without hammers that can jam if we type too fast. There were literally hundreds of typecase configurations: http://www.alembicpress.co.uk/Alembicprs/SELBLNK.HTM http://www.alembicpress.co.uk/Alembicprs/SELBLNK.HTM The English was neither the first, nor the direct ancestor to the California Job Case. I'm not an expert on the subject, but just from quick research, it would seem the American cases extend from the Germanic and Romantic cases, not the English ones. So again, what would a 1500s typecase have to do with a late 1800s case developed in a completely different nation? Other than a shared lingua, that is. Hint: the oblique point trying to be made here is....by the 1800s, the US had long diverged from England/the UK and so it's a weird assumption to be made that they would inherently do something "the English way"; let alone in a far archaic manner.