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Bergen, Jane wrote:
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> The answer is....depends on who you listen to. In my "Que's Computer
> User's Dictionary," they DO use capitalized letters for some acronyms.
> For example, CAD (which would look strange in lower case) and the
> "Official Microsoft HTML Help Authoring Kit" consistently capitalizes
> HTML.
No, she's asking whether the *expanded* acronym (as in her example)
contain uppercase characters where they appear in the acronym.
I think we'll all agree that the acronym itself should be in uppercase.
--David
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