Acronymic Question

[dewline]

A question for my reporter/journalist friendlisters, particularly the ones outside of North America: why do I often see acronyms not having every initial capitalized?

"Nasa" as opposed to "NASA", for example, or "Nafta" instead of "NAFTA"?

Comments

[ffutures]

Stupidity/ignorance is usually a good explanation.

Sometimes you see it the other way, e.g. you often see Hydra written as HYDRA despite not being an acronym.

[dewline]

I write "HYDRA" that way because of the original edition of the Marvel Universe Handbook.