AWFUL
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November 27, 2009
In A Win For Uppercase Letters (AWFUL), the NASA Public Affairs Office (PAO) has agreed acronyms should be capitalized even if they spell a word, if they are short enough. So WISE will remain WISE, not Wise. Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States, and I am thankful for uppercase acronyms.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
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A win for orthographical sanity! Congratulations on this victory, and here’s hoping there’s more to celebrate on the WISE front soon.
Hah! Wow, they actually had to have a discussion on that? Well, I’m thankful for the non-decline of proper grammar too 🙂 It’s also annoying here when people write CERN as Cern – and that isn’t even a real word!