On 27 Nov 2012, at 13:53, Clive Hohberger <cp...@case.edu> wrote: > BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from > William Safire's "On Language" column in the NY Times newspaper: He made the > analogy with "T-shirt".
The T in T-shirt is capitalized because of the shape of the letter and the garment. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
