Annoyances: Creative Capitalization

December 20th, 2006

In this first annoyance of what I hope will become a series (no, I’m no longer a happy elf), I’ll attack a thing that bugs me incredibly. Creative capitalization. I’m referring of course to the capitalization of parts of a word, to ones own amusement:

  • MicroSoft
  • MacroMedia
  • PhotoShop
  • FireFox
  • DreamWeaver
  • InDesign (Yes, I’m looking at you, Adobe!)
  • NoScope

What’s next, AppLe? Your suggestions?

  1. archGFX | A New Title pingbacked Posted November 22nd, 2007, 03:48
  2. archGFX Habari pingbacked Posted January 12th, 2008, 18:03
  1. FaUna, because “FaUna is what U make of it.”

  2. Many of those aren’t the official way of capitalizing it, but you are aware of that, right?

  3. FaUna, because ?FaUna is what U make of it.?

    Har har, good one.

    Many of those aren?t the official way of capitalizing it, but you are aware of that, right?

    Sure. I believe “InDesign” is the only one that’s correct in that form. As such, it annoys me less than FireFox. The same goes for UltraEdit and similar apps.

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