Date   : Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:44:32 -0000
From   : "Tim Matthews" <tim.matthews@...>
Subject: Re: Grammar

An Acorn / BBC bust-up?! Whatever next?!

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> "Tim Matthews" <tim.matthews@...> wrote:
> > 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.
>  
> Acorn RISC OS Style Guide:
> "It is BBC BASIC - two words, capital letters, pronounced bee 
> bee sea basic... "It is RISC OS - two words, capital letters, 
> pronounced risc oh ess"
>  
> And there's me always calling it risc oss.
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