Re: abbr and acronym

On 26 Mar 2007, at 18:20, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tina Holmboe wrote:
>
>>  However, unless we actually /structurally/ differentiate between
>>  an acronym and an abbreviation there is no way that any browser can
>>  render them differently, aurally or otherwise.
>
> Why would that matter? An acronym is, by definition, a word. Why  
> would you need to specify that a word be rendered as a word? You  
> might say that it might be written in uppercase, e.g. "NATO", but  
> so might any word, when PEOPLE JUST SHOUT.

It is also BBC house policy to render acronyms in lower case with an  
initial capital: NASA → Nasa, FEMA → Fema, PPARC → PParc …

- Nicholas.