RE: There must be some kind of standard....

["Boudreaux, Madelyn (GE Healthcare, consultant)" <MadelynBoudreaux -at- ge -dot- com>]

Quills wrote:
>And they may be one of those "educated" people who subscribe 
>to the 17th Century method of capitalization.

My (totally spurious) theory is that engineering, like many sciences,
owes much to great German scientists, and thus, all (or most) nouns get
capitalized. 

I work in a similar environment where All Things Important receive
Capital Letters. Pooh, indeed. (Oh, you meant the bear. Pardon my
French!)

- Madelyn
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