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Off topic but why do so many people capitalize "id" as "iD"? I did myself years ago as well but I have no idea why I did. None of their logos use that capitalization and my memory of the early games is too poor to recall where, if anywhere, it was written like that.


I've never seen id written as iD until these comments, so I'm not sure and it looks very odd seeing it that way. I used to write it as Id, though perhaps because I was confused on when to capitalize a name vs a company who writes their name in all lowercase


Yep, iD is definitely wrong.

(And for anyone who pronounces it "eye dee" instead of the correct "idd", you're doubly wrong!)


I've seen this usage in the wild a few times. It makes me twitch just like when someone types out "FireFox".


or "BitCoin"


Apple Derangement Syndrome, is my guess. To some people, anything beginning with a lowercase "i" has a capitalized second letter by default.




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