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


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