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Why does the BBC not use the NASA acronym?
by donretag 8y ago
Why does the BBC not use the NASA acronym?
- airstrike 8y agoCertain languages (British English and Portuguese, to name the two I know) dictate that if you pronounce the acronym as if it were a word, you only capitalize the first letter. Nasa and Nato, but NSA and WTO.
- ghaff 8y agoAnd in the US, non-proper nouns are often all lowercase even if they were originally acronyms. e.g. radar, laser, sonar, etc. And, even for proper nouns, things like programming languages often just has an initial cap although all caps is typically the technically correct form in US English.
- dyoo1979 8y agoExample reference: see the "abbreviations and acronyms" section in: https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a Hilariously enough, "Nasa" is specifically called out as an negative example from the English Wikipedia style guidelines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capital_letters#Acronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Capi...
- mcguire 8y agoDoesn't the BBC still believe in a country called "Burma"?