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Spelling acronyms in title case instead of all uppercase is a British thing generally.
by bovermyer 6y ago
Spelling acronyms in title case instead of all uppercase is a British thing generally.
- oarsinsync 6y agoNot sure I agree with that. The BBC blog about their decision to use Nato (instead of NATO)[0] is from 2013, a month after their decision to make that change, and starts with: > Barely a week goes by without at least one BBC News website reader asking why acronyms are in lower case: ‘it should be NASA, not Nasa.’ I disagree that this is a British thing generally, and rather it's a conscious stylistic choice made by the BBC. If it was a British thing generally, it holds that there wouldn't have been a need for the blog post at all. I also don't think 7 years is enough time to bastardise a language (unless you're talking about a dialect, at which point it doesn't always take very long to literally destroy the meaning of words) [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7cf269-9ee1-341b-81a8-1ebfe73c80a0 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7c...