Comments on: Spellcheck http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/spellcheck/ We eat Credit Crunch for breakfast Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:30:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous Coward http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/spellcheck/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Anonymous Coward Tue, 05 Jul 2011 06:30:25 +0000 http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/?p=396#comment-872 Well, a quick Google would tell you all you need to know: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/Capitalizing-Proper-Nouns.aspx http://styleguide.yahoo.com/ask/capitalization/why-do-you-capitalize-internet-lowercase-intranet Plenty more, too :) The Chicago Manual of Style is a good reference to consult (even though it originates on the other side of the pond), and this, too, advocates capitalisation in this way. The BBC do unfortunately seem to have gone their own way on this one. Well, a quick Google would tell you all you need to know:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_capitalization_conventions

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/Capitalizing-Proper-Nouns.aspx

http://styleguide.yahoo.com/ask/capitalization/why-do-you-capitalize-internet-lowercase-intranet

Plenty more, too :)

The Chicago Manual of Style is a good reference to consult (even though it originates on the other side of the pond), and this, too, advocates capitalisation in this way.

The BBC do unfortunately seem to have gone their own way on this one.

]]> By: andy http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/spellcheck/comment-page-1/#comment-871 andy Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:54:39 +0000 http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/?p=396#comment-871 Where is this Internet you speak of? I'd love to visit! Where is this Internet you speak of? I’d love to visit!

]]> By: Anonymous Coward http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/spellcheck/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Anonymous Coward Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:31:42 +0000 http://www.upsidedownturn.co.uk/?p=396#comment-870 You said: "Internet shouldn’t have an uppercase ‘i’ (unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence, as it is here). Neither television, nor radio are capitalised, so why should our medium be?" Actually, you are wrong here. The Internet is a proper noun - a place, just like London or the New York Stock Exchange. There is only one Internet (well, there's Internet 2, but that's not here yet) and it's not simply "an internet", unlike intranets, of which there are many. I agree with the rest of what you wrote though :o) You said: “Internet shouldn’t have an uppercase ‘i’ (unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence, as it is here). Neither television, nor radio are capitalised, so why should our medium be?”

Actually, you are wrong here. The Internet is a proper noun – a place, just like London or the New York Stock Exchange. There is only one Internet (well, there’s Internet 2, but that’s not here yet) and it’s not simply “an internet”, unlike intranets, of which there are many.

I agree with the rest of what you wrote though :o )

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