Aug 11, 2005

wHy aRE LeaRNeD SoCietIES SO KeEn on ACRoNyMS

Posted in Geek at 4:04 pm by David Bradley -- Click to comment

Just in, a press release from the Royal Chem Soc. I really didn’t get far into it because I stumbled at the first major acronym - EuCheMS. Why is it that learned societies and academics in general opt for all these acronyms with mixed upper and lower case letters?

I realise they’re an aid to remembering and pronouncing the acronym, but EUCHEMS would look soooo much neater on the page.

TtFn

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