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UK style, and this article is from the Guardian, is to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms that are pronounced like words, "Nasa" and "Nato" being freq
by abrowne 6y ago
UK style, and this article is from the Guardian, is to capitalize only the first letter of acronyms that are pronounced like words, "Nasa" and "Nato" being frequent examples. When each letter is pronounced (AKA an initialism), they capitalize each letter, such as for the WHO: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52294623 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52294623
- bovermyer 6y agoAah, interesting. Thank you for clarifying!
- et2o 6y agoVery interesting, thanks for this. I find this practice very dumb. A huge amount of acronyms now have to be written like regular words.
- nkoren 6y agoEh, Americans do it too, just less consistently. When's the last time you saw LASER?
- slimginz 6y agoI'd say things like laser are no longer the acronym they once were. How many people actually realize that laser is/was an acronym in the first place? The word itself has 'genericized' to the point that it's just a word to most people now.
- viklove 6y agoAmericans do not do this, when was the last time you saw Potus?
- Pfhreak 6y agoOn the flip side, it disambiguates the pronunciation. BBC has each letter spoken individually, NASA does not.
- CodeGlitch 6y agoWhat really annoys me about the UK MSM is they'll write "COBRA", or even worse, "Cobra" for the COBR meetings.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoCOBRA is a nickname (not an acronym) for the Civil Contingencies Committee based on the meetings being in COBR (an initialism/acronym). https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/cobr-cobra https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/cobr-co...
- CodeGlitch 6y agoEveryday is a school day. Thanks