Capital letters are referred to as upper case.
- Titles of books should be left in upper case.
As a verb, upper-case is hyphenated.
- The company style guide recommends that we upper-case titles used before a name.
In computer-related texts, uppercase is often spelled as one solid word.
- In computer programming, commands are written in UPPERCASE, like this.
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