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		pbhjpbhj on July 31, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA presents evidence that microwave thrusters se... CERN is an acronym and BBC is only an initialism. There is a linguistic trend to using title-case for acronyms; particularly companies seem to be turning their acronyms in to the company name. Perhaps using "Cern" is simply following that trend.

dragonwriter on July 31, 2014 [–]

British publications have been using titlecase for acronyms for a very long time, its not a recent trend.

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