News to me
I had no idea:
ABBA is an acronym. It stands for the first names of the four group members: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid. So keep those letters capped. (And, of course, there's no need to replicate the backwards B. They didn't consistently use it in their logo, anyway.)
posted by Nicole @ 9:13 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
Ah, but it's pronounced "Abba," not "Ay-Bee-Bee-Ay"! So that would argue for just the initial cap. I admit, though, that I have no good solution to "INXS."
Or maybe it's a European thing. I know in Spain and France all abbreviations are pronounced as words.
For example, people study at Uk-la (UCLA).
And I don't think the fact that an abbreviation is pronounced as a word always has any bearing on capitalization. It's MOMA, right, not Moma.
MOMA isn't the actual name of the museum; pronunciation doesn't matter at that point. That sounds rather picky, but these things really do make sense. Similarly, there's a company called Mid-Atlantic Medical Services Inc., or MAMSI for short. Those caps are fine, even though "mamsi" is pronounced as a word, but a company whose name actually was Mamsi couldn't successfully insist that its name be rendered in all caps any more than Visa or Nike or Microsoft could.
The comment about the pronunication of ABBA dictating its spelling makes no sense. We pronounce OSHA and ACES and any number of acronyms.
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