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  return string.upper(head) .. string.lower(tail)
  end
+end
+-- Converts an input string into TitleCase.
+-- Every first letter of every word becomes uppercase
+-- With the exception of 'of', 'the', 'and', but only if these
+-- appear anywhere in the sentence besides the first occurence.
+-- Examples:
+-- specialTitleCase('ALL CAPS') = 'All Caps'
+-- specialTitleCase('all lowercase') = 'All Lowercase'
+-- specialTitleCase('A MiXTUre') = 'A Mixture'
+-- specialTitleCase('the bones') = 'The Bones
+-- specialTitleCase('of the world') = 'Of the World'
+-- specialTitleCase('amulet Of Fishing') = 'Amulet of Fishing'
+function p.specialTitleCase(sentence)
+ -- List of words that are excluded from TitleCase
+    local excludedWords = {
+        ["of"] = true,
+        ["and"] = true,
+        ["the"] = true
+    }
+ -- Split all words and add them as lower case to the table.
+    local words = {}
+    for word in sentence:gmatch("%S+") do
+        table.insert(words, word:lower())
+    end
+    -- Capitalize the first word
+    words[1] = words[1]:gsub("^%l", string.upper)
+    -- Title-case the remaining words, excluding certain words based on position
+    for i = 2, #words do
+    local curWord = words[i]
+        if excludedWords[curWord] == true then
+        else
+            words[i] = curWord:gsub("^%l", string.upper)
+        end
+    end
+    return table.concat(words, " ")
 end