RE: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

From: charlesm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Mills)
Date: 28 Feb 2006 05:29:42 -0800

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.

Charles

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P.P.S. Any news writer who spells it "Cobol" shows how knowledgeable they
are about the language.

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