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FWIW, British English specifies that acronyms only have the first letter capitalized while American English capitalizes all of them. This has been causing conf
by thatoneguy 10y ago
FWIW, British English specifies that acronyms only have the first letter capitalized while American English capitalizes all of them.
This has been causing confusion well before CRISPR. Exif vs EXIF fights in photography forums have been going on since modern digital cameras were invented & it's simply because the Japanese used the British version of Exif.
- dekhn 10y agoI've only seen the British English acronym thing be the case when the acronym is pronounced, and I think it's mainly the BBC that does this.
- sib 10y agoWait, don't you mean the Bbc? ;)
- billforsternz 10y agoBBC is not an acronym because you pronounce it as a series of letters not as a synthetic word. I think.
- dekhn 10y agoNo, that's the Beeb.