Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

On 28 Feb 2006 05:29:42 -0800, charlesm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Charles Mills)
wrote:

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.

Interesting. So Laser and CoBOL are graduating from acronym-hood. Do
they do the same thing for unpronounceable acronyms?
.

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