RE: Style Guide examples

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> Our style guide has the same thing, actually. The university 
> style guide 
> dictates "Web," so we cascade that to our IT style guide. But 
> webmaster 
> is lowercase.
> 
> <shrug>It's English. These things don't always make perfect 
> sense.</shrug>
> 

Many publishers use the same style, Lisa, and the rationale is that the new
words are just that, "new words," and it would be nonsensical to capitalize
them, because the concepts for which those words stand are not names.


Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com


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