Date   : Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:09:46 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Jeremy C B Nicoll <Jeremy@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

In article <060207125506@...>,
   Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...> wrote:

> Capitalisation is the correct form.
>  
> ROM and ROMs, not rom, roms, Rom, Roms or ROMS.

(etc).  I particularly hate the modern tendency to write, say:

1mb

meaning 1 megabyte; I'd read "mb" as milli-something.  Millibar if
there was a weather reference.  Millibit in computing, not that it
means anything.  I'm sure that conventional scientific notation uses
capitals for all the increasing multiples of a thousand, like 
 
 K   Kilo    M mega    and so on

and lowercase ones for the diminishing multiples: m - milli etc.

-- 
Jeremy C B Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland - my opinions are my own.