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Old 07-05-2016, 01:27 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
I've recently prepared two books for the MobileRead library which were first published in the 1890s.

The text in both books did not capitalize the first words of sentences which followed exclamation or questions marks, though of course that is normally done in 2016 English. One example is:

'O sage! what are we to do?' which one would expect to see as 'O sage! What are we to do?'
This was a common editorial convention in the 19th century, because the "!" was not regarded as being the end of a sentence, but merely accentuating a word within the sentence.
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