Re: mind your P's and Q's

[Otte <rotte@REMC8.K12.MI.US>]

Kathie,
     I remember reading that ps and qs had to do with pints and quarts in
British pubs many yearas ago.  Pubkeepers had beads strung out on a wire
(or something) to keep track of how much certain people were drinking.

Robert Otte
South Christian High School
Grand Rapids MI
At 06:01 PM 10/31/2001 -0500, Kathleen Epler wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>This stems from the "old days" of hand picking the type to be set for a
>newspaper or other publication. The cases of type were upper and lower.
>That's where we get our phrase for capital letters being upper case as
>they were in - you got it! - the upper case.
>
>As for P's and Q's  - as the type is a mirror image of what is to be
>printed, the p and q looked alike, but the typesetter had to be careful
>which piece of type he was picking.
>
>
>Kathie Epler
>Librarian
>Amanda E. Stout Elem.
>Reading, PA
>skoob@epix.net
>
>Ride the Reading ("redding") Railroad when you play Monopoly!
>
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