Laravel words passed to Blade somehow become capitalized without explanation
That's just how Form::label works. According to the documentation, if you want to get untouched output, you should use labels with two parameters like this:
{!! Form::label('email', 'e-mail address') !!}Which outputs:
<label for="email">e-mail address</label>In your first cutout you're passing just one parameter and Form::Label prettyfies this string, so:
{!! Form::label('my email'); !!}Becomes this:
<label for="my email">My Email</label>How it works
Label builder checks second parameter and if it doesn't exist or it's null, builder passes label $name to the formatLabel() method which uses ucwords() to capitalize every word's first character.
protected function formatLabel($name, $value) { return $value ?: ucwords(str_replace('_', ' ', $name)); }