The Guardian should capitalize ICE as I was like: what does cold ice has to do with it?
British English, or at least some house styles used by some British publications, tends to capitalize words based on how they’re pronounced rather than their meaning.
So, “FBI” is spoken by one saying each letter. “Eff” “Bee” “Eye”. NASA is not — “Nahsaw”.
Under the approach that The Guardian uses, you’d capitalize each letter in “FBI” but not “Nasa”.
In American English, the capitalization depends on the meaning. If it’s an acronym, you always capitalize it. If it isn’t, you don’t. With very few exceptions, all three-letter-or-fewer acronyms are spoken letter-by-letter, and all four-letter-or-greater are spoken as words, so you generally don’t need the hint from writing. In the US, you’d have “FBI” and “NASA”.
According to Wiktionary, “ICE” has valid pronunciations going both as a word or as a series of letters:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ICE
IPA(key): /aɪs/
IPA(key): /aɪ siː iː/
So if you use the “one word” pronunciation, then you’d expect The Guardian to write it as “Ice”.
EDIT: looks at parent’s home instance If you’re a Canuck, I believe that the appropriate protocol in most instances of British English/American English differences is to do whichever you want and then state that whatever you’re doing is Canadian English.
Initialism (FBI, CIA) vs acronym (ICE, NASA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
In English, the word is used in two ways. In the narrow sense, an acronym is a sequence of letters (representing the initial letters of words in a phrase) when pronounced together as a single word, like NASA, NATO, or laser. In the broad sense, the term includes this kind of sequence when pronounced letter by letter (such as GDP or USA). Sources that differentiate the two often call the former acronyms and the latter initialisms[1][2][3] or alphabetisms. However, acronym is popularly used to refer to either concept,[4] and both senses of the term are attributed as far back as the 1940s.[5]
I am being the change I want to see in the world.
So prices will go down, right? Right?
No, America
America will go down? Sounds about right.
Shareholder profits cannot be allowed to fall. The price will increase, first as a way to make the same profits from a shrinking market, then as a disciplinary measure to teach those poors what happens when you let your friends stop buying product.
Lard finna make its comeback.
