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> Then why does its creator write it all lowercase? It's written consistently in all upper case in the copy text at https://www.delorie.com/djgpp/. When it's written in all lowercase, like in the title, that's a stylistic preference that you can disapprove of if you want, although it's an incredibly petty thing to care about. > Yes. Well, that's your prerogative, but it's against standard English orthography. Acronyms and initialisms that refer to proper nouns are spelled all uppercase in English. FBI, NASA, WHO, GCC, HSV, NY, no "Fbi", "Nasa", "Who", "Gcc", "Hsv", or "Ny". You'd never get the latter versions past any remotely competent copy editor or grade school teacher. As an example of different orthography, in standard Finnish NASA would indeed be spelled "Nasa", but FBI is still FBI and DJGPP is still DJGPP. |
And consistently lowercase in the article linked in the post I was answering.
There is 10 years between the 2 links, seems the author changed their mind about introducing words with forced irregular capitalization.