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and over time. For instance, the full rules of capitalization in English are complicated and have changed over time, generally to capitalize fewer words; the conventions used in an 18th-century document will be unfamiliar to a modern reader of English (e.g., many common nouns were capitalized).

Conventions

Orthographies have different conventions for capitalization, for example, the capitalization of titles. Conventions also vary, to a lesser extent,

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