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Pet peeve: it's ALDI, not Aldi. It's an acronym for ALbrecht-DIskont.
by joezydeco 3y ago
Pet peeve: it's ALDI, not Aldi. It's an acronym for ALbrecht-DIskont.
- kube-system 3y agoAcronyms under most English style guides should be written in lowercase with the first letter capitalized. Only initialisms should be in all caps, which Aldi is definitely not. e.g. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/business/aldi-winn-dixie-harveys-acquisition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/business/aldi-winn-dixie-... e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63015985 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-63015985 Aldi's corporate style is "ALDI" but that's just their internal guidance, not the rules of English.
- rendang 3y agoI almost always see most acronyms (not brands with an acronym origin like Aldi) in all caps, and always considered it an odd quirk of the BBC that they did not. E.g. The NYT itself: https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=nato https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=nato Even the Daily Mail: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nato+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nato+site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2F... But apparently the Guardian doesn't do the all-caps either. Are there any American publications/style guides that don't do all-caps?
- kube-system 3y agoEditors will make exceptions to general style guidelines when they think it leads to better clarity when reading. For instance, most newspapers will write iPhone with a lower case 'i', despite that being incorrect for a proper noun, because people are used to seeing it that way.