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Subject:Re: am pm or AM PM From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 20 Dec 1994 16:56:00 -0500
Any suggestions on which way to write am/pm, small case or caps? Does it
make a difference? I've always seen it in lower case.
Call me old-fashioned, but I've always capitalized them. They're initialisms,
after all (Ante Meridian, Post Meridian).
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 24
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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