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by smoll
2023 days ago
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Perhaps this is too simple of an explanation to be true, but maybe the lack of capitalization comes from people on the internet typing internet without capitalization, and then the “important publications” all followed suit eventually. Sort of like how no one really uses “LOL” instead of “lol” even though it’s an acronym and of course acronyms are supposed to be capitalized. |
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Style guides have different rules. Here's BBC saying they don't capitalise all acronyms: https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7c...
And there are words like laser or Benelux that tend not to be capitalised even if the style guide recommends it.