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Should be IMCDb, as the Db stands for Database
If we start to use HANOMAG with capital letters, then we must change the following, for consistency:
• SIMCA (Société Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile),
• ALFA Romeo (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili),
• SAVIEM (Société Anonyme de Véhicules Industriels et d'Équipements Mécaniques),
• SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo),
and so on, with certainly a lot more of other concerned makes in the IMCDb.
In addition to being boring to write, we shouldn't forget that writing in upper case means shouting for long-time Internet users, hence their reluctance to write that way (or not
). And it already has become a kind of habit, if not a standard.
So maybe writing just the 1st letter in upper case for the acronyms(1), as done for now, is indeed better than managing all of them as initialisms(1)
1: The acronym can be pronounced as a word, in its accurate definition. Unlike an initialism.
![:wink: :wink:](images/smileys/wink.gif)
If we start to use HANOMAG with capital letters, then we must change the following, for consistency:
• SIMCA (Société Industrielle de Mécanique et Carrosserie Automobile),
• ALFA Romeo (Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili),
• SAVIEM (Société Anonyme de Véhicules Industriels et d'Équipements Mécaniques),
• SEAT (Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo),
and so on, with certainly a lot more of other concerned makes in the IMCDb.
In addition to being boring to write, we shouldn't forget that writing in upper case means shouting for long-time Internet users, hence their reluctance to write that way (or not
![:wink: :wink:](images/smileys/wink.gif)
So maybe writing just the 1st letter in upper case for the acronyms(1), as done for now, is indeed better than managing all of them as initialisms(1)
1: The acronym can be pronounced as a word, in its accurate definition. Unlike an initialism.