Saturday, April 11, 2009

Getting names of organizations correct

In her post on March 24, 2009, "Editor makes prize from mistakes," Lynn Klyde-Silverstein cites information she received from an nonprofit organization that gets its stories from average people. The name of the organization is "StoryCorps." She makes a point of telling the people who follow her blog that "the name is indeed one word with a capital 'C.'"

This is the kind of thing that her blog is about. Most people reading an article that referred back to a name such as "StoryCorps" would likely think there was some sort of error. Perhaps the person might think it was two words; Story Corps. Or a reader might not think the 'C' would have been capitalized. There may even be another scenario or two that I missed.

There is more to Klyde-Silverstein's post on March 24, but it is only this small part that I wanted to highlight.

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