RE: ID or Id?

["David Downing" <DavidDowning -at- users -dot- com>]

Furthermore, "Id" is an actual word, coined by good old Dr. Freud.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: ID or Id?


> Another one, when shortening "Identity", I always put ID but should it

> be
> Id?

When abbreviations are spoken letter by letter, they are written in all 
uppercase. Since "ID" is spoken "eye-dee", it must be written "ID". 
"Id" would be spoken "id".

Regards
Jan Henning

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