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UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms. i.e. NASA becomes Nasa.
by mrkstu 7y ago
UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms. i.e. NASA becomes Nasa.
- mrkstu 7y agoFrom wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English#Capitalization_of_acronyms_and_initialisms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_in_English#Capi...): >Generally acronyms and initialisms are capitalized, e.g., "NASA" or "SOS." Sometimes a minor word such as a preposition is not within the acronym, such as "WoW" for "World of Warcraft". In British English, only the initial letter of an acronym is capitalized if the acronym is read as a word, e.g., "Unesco."
- hvindin 7y agoGenuine question, do normal people pronounce ARM as "Arm" (like the limb) as in /ɑːrm/ or /ɑːm/, or do they pronounce it like A.R.M as in each letter individually. I've always said ARM (as in each individual letter) when talking about ARM processors and it's never even occured to me to pronounce it like Arm. That being said... I do pronounce RISCV as /rɪsk-viː/ (or, as I believe was the intention rɪsk-faiv depending who I am talking to) and that seemed entirely normal as opposed to pronouncing each letter in the Acronym... So maybe I'm just weird here...
- slau 7y agoIn English, I usually just say it as the body part. In French, however, I would pronounce every letter separately.
- pm215 7y agoThe company and CPU name has always been pronounced 'arm' like the body part.
- ksec 7y agoMy general rule is to pronounced any three letter Capitalised term as individual characters, so A/R/M and S/Q/L. Since RISC-V is longer I pronounced it the same as you; /rɪsk-viː/, the same as to NASA and NATO.
- danellis 7y agoYeah, it's pronounced like the limb, and always has been, at least in English-speaking countries. Hence the StrongARM pun.
- etork 7y agoUk
- danellis 7y agoI can't say that I've ever noticed that to be generally true, but I'll certainly be looking out for it now.
- skyyler 7y agoThe only time Brits capitalise the entire acronym is if we are worried about confusing Americans.
- zimpenfish 7y agoI don't think it is /generally/ true - it's certainly in a bunch of style guides (e.g. The Guardian says Nato) but not in others (e.g. Plain English Campaign says NATO). I'd be amazed if there was an actual grammatical "rule" about this, mind.
- airstrike 7y agoSome additional bit of trivia: in Portuguese, you capitalize every letter for any acronyms of length <= 3 or those which you pronounce each letter separately like HTML. Having said that, for foreign names like NASA, you follow the original country's grammar rules so we'd never write Nasa
- taneq 7y ago> UK's grammar rules differ from the United States- they don't capitalize acronyms. They don't call themselves the Uk, do they?
- throwaway936482 7y agoThat's because UK isn't pronounced as a word, it's pronounced as an acronym - yoo kay, so both letters are capitalised. If it was pronounced as a word - yuck perhaps - only the first letter would be capitalises.
- danellis 7y agoAn acronym is pronounced as a word. You mean initialism.