[mb-style] RFC: english capitalization of shortened words begining with a single quote

Steve Wyles steve at inhouse.co.uk
Fri Sep 1 16:34:56 UTC 2006


On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Mangled wrote:

>> From the opinions expressed on the thread, we suggest the following:
> - abbreviated words begining with a quote, when in the middle of a
> sentence, must have their first letter lowercased
> - abbreviated words begining with a quote at the begining of a
> sentence must have their first letter capitalized
>

As they are guidelines instead of strict rules, I would use the word 
'should' instead of 'must'.

Steve



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