Re: GNOME vs. Gnome

[Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Chema Celorio wrote:

> The thing is that usually when you spell with capital letters,
> and you say the word, you spell each letter individually, then
> it makes sense.
> 
> Like :
> HP you say "Ache Pee" or
> IBM you say "Eye Bee Em", 
> KDE you say "EEeeek, what's that"
> 
> Unless we start saying, "your 'Ge En O Em E' Desktop is nice."
> 
> For names that you pronouce the name itself tend
> to be spelled with Cap+lower letters. Like "Sun" for example.

[SNIP]

> P.S. I am sure somebody is going  to find an exeption to this
>      rule and reply with "What about xyx ... ", this just tends
>      to be the norm AFAIK.

I couldn't resist - SCSI. Although from listening to it you'd think it was
spelled "scuzzy" :) I think your rule is broken when the acronym can be
reasonably pronounced as a word.  BOF and RAM are other examples.

LASER is another example, and it is one which has been around long enough
to lose its upper case completely, generally being called "laser".

Dan