"Richard Fairhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>Martin wrote:
>> I don't think there's any official rule about how whether the 
>> abbreviation should be in capitals or not.
>
>To be honest, anything like this is more a matter of house style 
>than of the organisation's own preferences.

And this from a man with a loose association with NarrowBoat magazine
...

>The Waterways Trust capitalise the T in their 'The': "New grants 
>have been announced by The Waterways Trust". I think this looks 
>remarkably silly; after all, we wouldn't capitalise the T in (say) 
>the Environment Agency. So when the name appears in WW, it's the 
>Waterways Trust.

I think the Trust may have overlooked a potential problem when
choosing its three-letter acronym, pronunciation-wise.

Adrian


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