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From: xopr123@mot.com (Michael 'Ninja Raccoon' Lind)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: capitalizing cisco
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Date: 28 Sep 90 20:34:36 GMT
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Re: John Cottriel's comment on capitalization:

> my only problem with cisco is that I'm not sure if I'm supposed to
> capitalize their name when it appears at the beginning of a sentence.

I have also wondered about whether to capitalize cisco at the beginning
of a sentence.  I don't recall any grammar rules that say that a
sentence begins with anything other than a capital.  Even nouns that
are not proper nouns are capitalized at the beginning of a sentence.
Example: Trees have leaves.  

When writing vendor and product names, I always try to type them in
the case the company uses.  (Superscripts and subscripts and special
characters are tough with only an ASCII set!).  When I don't know
what to do, I strive for consistency (the hobgoblin of little minds).
Unless cisco finds some reason why we should change a capitalization
rule, I propose that we capitalize cisco at the beginning of a
sentence.

Cisco, (and everyone else), what do you think?

Michael Lind
mlind@mot.com