Why does English alphabets have both capital and small letters?

Question

Why does English alphabets have both capital and small letters?

In: Other

Answer 1

Capital letters denote the start of a sentence, name, title or place.

So for example:

Hello, my name is Colvack.

Start of the sentence begins with H, however if I said ‘Good evening’, it would begin with G, as it’s the start of a sentence. The next capital letter can be seen in my name, as in ‘Colvack’. So if your name was ‘Abdullah’, you’d say:

‘Hello, my name is Abdullah’

(Going off your username, apologies if that’s not your name!)

Lower case letters typically denote everything else. It’s the same alphabet as each lower-case is equal to its upper case.

Hope this helps!