The uppercase letter signals to the reader that a new sentence is beginning. Acronyms are a type of abbreviation. Acronyms are words formed from other letters to make a new word. However, they require capital letters to signal to the reader that those letters stand for something and are not a word alone. Norton, The term comes from the position of the loose metal or wooden letters laid in front of the traditional compositor's hands before they were used to form a word—the commonly used ones on an accessible lower level, the capitals above them, waiting their turn.
Even with this distinction, the compositor would still have to 'mind their p s and q s,' so alike were they when each letter was dismantled from a block of type and then tossed back into the compartments of a tray. We have never seen anything before quite like the use of a lower-case initial for a brand-name , as in iPod, iPhone, iSense and eBay , or airline companies such as easyJet and jetBlue , and it is not yet clear how to handle them, especially when we want one of these words to begin a sentence.
There are precedents for introducing a capital in the middle of a word as in such names as McDonald's and chemical substances such as CaSi , calcium silicate , but brand names have hugely increased its everyday visibility, as seen in AltaVista, AskJeeves, PlayStation, YouTube and MasterCard. Picador, This departure from Chicago's former usage recognizes not only the preferred usage of the owners of most such names but also the fact that such spellings are already capitalized if on the second letter.
Company or product names with additional, internal capitals sometimes called 'midcaps' should likewise be left unchanged. The University of Chicago Press, This definition points out clearly that 'xerox,' either capitalized or in lower case, is used throughout the population as both a proper adjective and as a noun.
Lise Buranen and Alice M. SUNY Press, A good rule to follow is that most trademarks are adjectives, not nouns or verbs. Use trademarks as modifiers as in 'Kleenex tissues' or 'Xerox copiers.
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