Carbolic soap strong, tar-like scent. In Great Britain it was used in state schools at least up until the late 1980s. In the 1960s and prior decades, school teachers in the United Kingdom were allowed to use corporal punishment in the classroom, so along with the cane, a child who cursed might be made to wash out his or her mouth with carbolic soap. Carbolic soap is still used regularly in the Caribbean region, especially Jamaica and Panama where it can be found in most pharmacies and supermarkets. Carbolic soap Carbolic soap is a mildly antiseptic soap containing carbolic acid and/or cresylic
Letter case Letter case Letter case (or just case) is the distinction between the letters that are in larger upper case (also "uppercase", "capital letters", "capitals", "caps", "large letters", or more formally "majuscule") and smaller lower case (also "lowercase", "small letters", or more formally "minuscule") in the written representation of certain languages. The writing systems that distinguish between the upper and lower case have two parallel sets of letters, with each letter in one set usually having an equivalent in the other set. The two case variants are alternative representations of the same letter: they have the same name and pronunciation and