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Very 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 ago
  Eh, Americans do it too, just less consistently. When's the last time you saw LASER?
  • slimginz 6y ago
    I'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.
    • detritus 6y ago
      I could as well suggest the same about Nasa :) For all HNers that the distinction will be incredibly obvious, to Joe Schmo from Idaho, perhaps less so.
    • rozab 6y ago
      I would imagine that most people don't know what NASA stands for. At this point it's just a word.
  • viklove 6y ago
    Americans do not do this, when was the last time you saw Potus?
• Pfhreak 6y ago
  On the flip side, it disambiguates the pronunciation. BBC has each letter spoken individually, NASA does not.
  • ry4nolson 6y ago
    "BBC" is not an acronym though, it's an initialism.
    • Pfhreak 6y ago
      That's the point I was making, yes.
  • cr3ative 6y ago
    And then you have brands like POLITICO who go and ruin it for everyone. I'm very glad we don't tolerate those case shenanigans.