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Bookmark or Share- Acronyms and Initialisms- Uppercase, Lowercase, or eitherThe Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition (2010) briefly addresses the question of whether the spelled-out form of an initialism or acronym should be initial-capped if the short form is capitalized, at 10.6 Capital versus lowercase for acronyms and initialisms:
- Why is it spelled "curiosity" instead of "curiousity?"Since I have spelled the word this way my whole life and none of my English teachers/professors ever crossed out this "misspelling," is it not technically incorrect, just discouraged? Or perhaps it is archaic, which is why I could only find it defined in a legal dictionary with a capital "C:" Curiousity, not curiousity.
- writing - Why are numbers sometimes spelled out and then numerals ...I'm referring to the peculiar habit I sometimes see in formal documents, where a number is given numerically after it's spelled out. It seems quite redundant: I need five (5) kumquats, stat! (T...
- abbreviations - Should I write "PhD" or "Ph.D."? - English Language ...This page discusses whether to use "PhD" or "Ph.D." in written English.
- grammar - to be spelled as or to be spelled by? - English Language ...I would say "spelled with" as mentioned in a comment. Or I would use no preposition at all. exaggerated" is spelled with double "g". there are a few words in English where the "g" sound is spelled "gg". Google Ngram Viewer produces a few "spelled by" and "spelled as", though
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