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"Miniscule" means small. But in its original sense it meant "lower-case". The lower-case letters were called miniscules and the upper-case ones majuscules. This was in the day when all books had to be written by hand in calligraphy; the expressions "lower-case" and "upper-case" derive from typesetter's jargon.

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