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Subject:Re: Setting up acronyms From:jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:59:44 -0400
Sorry, if I see a lower case word in the middle of an acronym set-up, I assume it means that the lower case word was left out of the acronym. (FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, for example)
Jim
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From: jopakent -at- comcast -dot- net
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Subject: Setting up acronyms
Silly one here..
It seems to me that it is incorrect to capitalize acronym set-ups just because
they are acronyms.
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