the case for camel case
Almanac | (4)
Caleb Crain has an interesting little rant in the New York Times Magazine about the practice of "camel casing": inserting a capital letter in the midst of a (usually) compound word, with or without an initial capital--MasterCard, iPhone, PowerPoint. Crain is dead set against it, though more because it so often represents a mangling of language by corporations than because of its effects on readability. Indeed, most of the piece is about the practice of putting spaces between words--a comparatively recent innovation, according to Crain, developed by Irish and English monks in the 13th century to aid in ...
