Date   : Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:18:14 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
>> What do people think of capitalisation of acronyms (ie. EPROMS, BASIC
>> rather than eprom, basic)?
>  
> Capitalisation is the correct form.
>  
> ROM and ROMs, not rom, roms, Rom, Roms or ROMS.
> EPROM and EPROMs, not EPROMS, Eproms, eproms, etc.
> BASIC, not Basic.
> BBC BASIC, not BBCBasic, BBC Basic.
> RISC OS, not Risc OS, RiscOS, RISCOS.

It's interesting how important case is in written language, and yet most 
operating systems have case insensitive filesystems...

cheers

Jules