# Capitalization of usernames?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalization-of-usernames/27813
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [August 2, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalization-of-usernames/27813 "2000-08-02T06:44:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Et\_tu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df788c/32.png) [@Et\_tu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Et_tu)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalization-of-usernames/27813/21 "2000-08-12T01:12:21Z")

</div>

I kinda wondered how I should capitalize this username.

I guess the Romans didn’t have small letters, but ET TU just looked wrong. My dictionary gave it as “et tu, Brute”, as though the initial E wouldn’t be capitalized, even as a sentence.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/capitalization-of-usernames/27813.md?page=1)