I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms appears to have originated in the UK. The BBC refers to Nato, Nasa, and Cobol (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4021093.stm as an example).
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Mills > Sent: Tuesday February 28 2006 05:30 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia > > Many news media have style guidelines that call for long > (more than four > letters?) acronyms to be written in lower case, because they > feel that otherwise the look of the long strings of caps is > distracting to readers. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
