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DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.
by Retric 8mo ago
DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.
- ssl-3 8mo agoI considered the small "o". But the precedent for US government TLAs seems to be to capitalize the whole thing: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list
- Retric 8mo agoCapitalizing everything is the new direction, but I doubt it’s going to stick around. There’s a long legacy of DoD vs DOW, for a current military example that wasn’t updated: https://dodtap.mil/dodtap/app/about/DoDTAP https://dodtap.mil/dodtap/app/about/DoDTAP Here the DoD pattern makes it clear what part of the larger acronym is representing.