Does Cahoot participate in the Current Account Switch Service?

eskbanker

As above, Bacs is the style adopted by the company and its parent Pay.UK, regardless of its undisputed derivation or what Wikipedia says, and it seems to me perfectly valid for them to choose to use it as an acronym rather than simply an abbreviation - it's not generally considered necessary or appropriate to refer to, say, a Fiat [sic] 500, or a laser [sic] printer, or a scuba [sic] diver, etc!

WillPS

In today's edition of off-topic tedium...

eskbanker

WillPS said:

In today's edition of off-topic tedium...

The initial question was answered early on, so anyone only interested in the original topic doesn't need to read on for all the subsequent gratuitous pedantry....

dcs34

To continue the aside, the BBC's style guide is that acronyms (pronounced as a word) can be written in sentence case, whereas initialisms (pronounced letter-by-letter) are in all caps.

So Nasa, Nato, Fifa and Bacs, but BBC, NHS, CIA and RAF.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/8f7cf269-9ee1-341b-81a8-1ebfe73c80a0