Ralf Herrmann Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 (Not sure if asked this before) I am trying to collect words and phrases which come from the field of typography/letterpress, but are used in common English today, like uppercase/lowercase, stereotype, “out of sorts” … Who knows more of these words/phrases? Link to comment
Member Geo… Posted May 7, 2017 Share Posted May 7, 2017 I started to try and list some, but then did a Google search "letterpress terminology" which turns up several glossaries which may be helpful to your project. Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted May 7, 2017 Author Share Posted May 7, 2017 Sure, but since English isn’t my native language, I might not even see the connections that might be there. People with experience in the field and English as native language can know or see these connections much more easily. Link to comment
Member mew… Posted May 9, 2017 Share Posted May 9, 2017 Hey Ralf, When you say "common English", do you mean language used to describe typography and letterpress by the laymen so-to-speak, as opposed to experts? If so, in my experience the following terms are commonly used: bleed, embossed, copy, double-sided, finish, gilt-edge, landscape, litho, proof, run-on, script Hope that helps somehow? Link to comment
Member Rya… Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 The first that came to mind is "Mind your P's and Q's." In typesetting with movable type, a lower-case p and lower-case q are easy to mistake to the untrained eye. 2 Link to comment
Ralf Herrmann Posted October 30, 2019 Author Share Posted October 30, 2019 I’ve finally turned this into an article: The “mind your p’s and q’s” didn’t survive the fact checking. Quote Investigations by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2007 when revising the entry turned up early examples of the use of Ps and Qs to mean learning the alphabet. 1 Link to comment
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