Date   : Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:03:42 -0000
From   : "Tim Matthews" <tim.matthews@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

It doesn't really matter if it's an acronym or not - radar, laser,
tardis etc. But here at the Beeb, we only capitalise if it's still
spoken as letters - ie, BBC. if it's spoken as a word, then it's lower
case.
i could dig out the corporation style guide if anyone's really
interested.

is this off-topic enough yet....?

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
> Sent: 07 February 2006 14:18
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> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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
> 
> 
> 

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