No | Message 6 of 1 | TechRepublic

Discussion on:

Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design

View entire thread

Message 6 of 1

Next » « Prev

0 Votes

+ -

No

alec.wood@... 3rd Jun 2009

Nist, Nasa etc are spoken as words, rather than as individual letters.

The convention in UK English is that if it is spoken as a word then only the first letter is capitalised, if it's said as individual letters then all are capitalised, unless the "owner" has through use in their own literature or other publication indicated an alternate convention.

For example

Nasa - spoken as a word, so first letter capitalised

USA - spoken as individual letters, so all are capitalised

UNICEF - spoken as a single word, but was all capitalised in the organisation's original literature and documents, so the "owner's" convention overrides the UK English standard one