Kenneth Whistler <kenw at sybase dot com> wrote: > In addition to the examples pointed out by Roozbeh and Michael, > this pattern is growing increasingly common in commercial English, > where such forms as "eBusiness" and "eSecurity" are enjoying > increasing vogue. And CamelCasing is apparent not only in > technical terminology, but has spread to company names and the > like, as well. Consider, e.g., "PayPal".
See, for example, the Jargon File entries for "BiCapitalization" and "studlycaps." More to the point, though, I'm really not sure I would expect a lower-upper combination to kern as tightly as an upper-lower combination anyway, at least in the BiCapitalized environment, because of the presumption that the lower-upper combination really involves two words. In the semi-mythical word "eTraining," if the "e" were typographically farther from the "T" than the "r" was, everything would probably look OK because the word breaks down as e-Training. I don't know how badly this model would fall apart for Irish or Bantu words, though. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
