Hi Carrie, The leading dot signifies a capital letter. Instead of making 52 different 'letters" we just use the 26 and then have the one dot that means uppercase. Also, if there are more than two uppercase letters in a row, that symbol is printed twice to mean all caps. HTH, Jake PS I'll be emailing you in the next day or two about a donation of books. ----- Original Message ----- From: Carrie Karnos To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 6:17 AM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] OT: Google home page image Neat image at Google! So it's correct? What does the leading dot do? Does it signal the start of a phrase or sentence? Just curious, Carrie Jake Brownell <jabrown@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Anybody seene the Google home page yet? I got an interesting surprise when taking a look at the graphic earlier today, (wednesday) and yes the image is correct. Cheers! Jake ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.11/219 - Release Date: 1/2/2006