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Sun Mar 4 05:41:03 MST 2007
several years, we typically saw use of all caps
(TEFRA, DEFRA, ERISA, etc.).
That said, I've seen initial caps used in a
journalistic context (for example, "More than 2,000
Nascar fans e-mailed CEO Brian France yesterday in
support of Kurt Busch..."), but it always annoys the
heck out of me!
Steven Brown
--- John Posada <jposada01 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, guys...
>
> I'm documrenting insurance stuff and we refer alot
> to the
> Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
> (COBRA).
>
> For those that know...those in the field where COBRA
> is an industry
> term (as opposed to those who see it only as a
> grammar question),
> because is it an acronym, do you make it all caps or
> even though it
> is an acro, is it so common that it's become a
> normal word "Cobra"?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> John Posada
> Senior Technical Writer
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