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Please fix the title, it's _c_, not _C_.

I never understood the appeal of title case. It brings nothing valuable, but sometimes leads to stupid mistakes like this, or raises ambiguities that hamper my reading.

I hope the American influence won't make this practice more common in British English. But it's not just about the country: The Washington Post has sane titles, like every British newspaper I've read, while The New York Times Has Elite Titles With Many Big Letters.

While I prefer the aesthetics of only an initial capital in the title, title case in prose helps us distinguish the title from the rest of the sentence.

There are more suitable typographical techniques of accomplishing the same result.

I am glad to see that I am not the only one who thinks the same. My mother language doesn't use title case, maybe it's why I find it ugly.

Another thing that I also find really annoying is using commas instead of "and" in headlines. It just makes reading them much harder for no obvious benefit.

Technically it is the character with Unicode code point U+1D450. But HN arbitrarily removes it from the string upon submission, so, since we're approximating, C will do.

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