diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailadmin/tests/test_pages_views.py b/wagtail/wagtailadmin/tests/test_pages_views.py
index cd694b93b3..51f78f5fec 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailadmin/tests/test_pages_views.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailadmin/tests/test_pages_views.py
@@ -343,13 +343,13 @@ class TestPageCreation(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         response = self.client.get(reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:add_subpage', args=(self.root_page.id, )))
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
-        self.assertContains(response, "Simple Page")
+        self.assertContains(response, "Simple page")
         # List of available page types should not contain pages with is_creatable = False
-        self.assertNotContains(response, "MTI Base Page")
+        self.assertNotContains(response, "MTI base page")
         # List of available page types should not contain abstract pages
-        self.assertNotContains(response, "Abstract Page")
+        self.assertNotContains(response, "Abstract page")
         # List of available page types should not contain pages whose parent_page_types forbid it
-        self.assertNotContains(response, "Business Child")
+        self.assertNotContains(response, "Business child")
 
     def test_add_subpage_with_subpage_types(self):
         # Add a BusinessIndex to test business rules in
@@ -362,9 +362,9 @@ class TestPageCreation(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         response = self.client.get(reverse('wagtailadmin_pages:add_subpage', args=(business_index.id, )))
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
-        self.assertContains(response, "Business Child")
+        self.assertContains(response, "Business child")
         # List should not contain page types not in the subpage_types list
-        self.assertNotContains(response, "Simple Page")
+        self.assertNotContains(response, "Simple page")
 
     def test_add_subpage_with_one_valid_subpage_type(self):
         # Add a BusinessSubIndex to test business rules in
@@ -3307,7 +3307,7 @@ class TestRevisions(TestCase, WagtailTestUtils):
         response = self.client.get(last_christmas_preview_url)
         self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)
 
-        self.assertContains(response, "Editing Event Page")
+        self.assertContains(response, "Editing Event page")
         self.assertContains(response, "You are viewing a previous revision of this page")
 
         # Form should show the content of the revision, not the current draft
diff --git a/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py b/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
index f6b3e5d6c4..54f9756d16 100644
--- a/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
+++ b/wagtail/wagtailcore/models.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from django.utils.encoding import python_2_unicode_compatible
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 from django.utils.six import StringIO
 from django.utils.six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse
-from django.utils.text import slugify
+from django.utils.text import capfirst, slugify
 from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
 from modelcluster.models import ClusterableModel, get_all_child_relations
 from treebeard.mp_tree import MP_Node
@@ -1002,11 +1002,11 @@ class Page(six.with_metaclass(PageBase, AbstractPage, index.Indexed, Clusterable
     @classmethod
     def get_verbose_name(cls):
         """
-            Returns the human-readable "verbose name" of this page model e.g "Blog page".
+        Returns the human-readable "verbose name" of this page model e.g "Blog page".
         """
         # This is similar to doing cls._meta.verbose_name.title()
         # except this doesn't convert any characters to lowercase
-        return ' '.join([word[0].upper() + word[1:] for word in cls._meta.verbose_name.split()])
+        return capfirst(cls._meta.verbose_name)
 
     @property
     def status_string(self):