trivia: origin of names for UPPER() and LOWER()

it occurred to my that for some whose native tongue is not english, the names of these two functions might seem a bit odd, as would the phrases 'upper case' and 'lower case'

so, trivia question: what's the derivation (etymology, if you will) of the terms 'upper case' and 'lower case' from which these functions get their name?

++ mcs Received on Wed Dec 28 2005 - 07:09:06 CST