--- "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@...> wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
>
> >--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley"
> <nbodley@...> wrote:
> >
> >>Just came across this -- it seems to be a synonym
> >>for CamelCase, one of the more witty of recent
> >>neologisms.
> >>
> >>InterCap/CamelCase: The form of a word with an
> >>embedded capital letter (not Gaelic, either! :) )
> >>
> >
> >Thanks Nicholas. I love that! Somehow CamelCase
> >seems like a term it would be difficult to forget.
> >InterCap sounds more technical but I hadn't heard
> >either and can really see a use for such a term.
> >
> It has long been referred to as BiCapitalization, I
> believe (see
>

http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html).

> There is
> also the related phenomenon of sTUdlY cAPs
>

(http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/studlycaps.html).

> InterCaps is also listed in the jargon file as a
> synonym for BiCapitalization.

I'm not sure if I or anyone else has referred to this
little list yet but it's something I compiled a while
ago for the Wikipedia article of which terms started
to appear when on Usenet:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CamelCase#Early_Usenet_Sightings

Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)

> ~mark
>

http://en.wiktionary.org -- http://linguaphile.sf.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl



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