Shaneo - The X as a symbol for THE CHRIST is so entrenched that using it for xopher would border on blasphemy - - or is that sacrilege(?)

A common problem with acronyms is with the word processors' "autocorrect" funcion. People do have a tendency to "hang" on the shift key, so that "doubled-capitals" are a very common typo. Most word processors can be set to automatically convert "doubles" to a single capital followed by lower case for the rest - sometimes brutally instisting on the change - and that correction is often a default setting.

That might be the source of the "Pc" cited above. Less literate persons may have picked up the notion that "that's how the computer does it, so it must be right." (?????) I haven't seen lower-casing in acronyms done deliberately by anyone over the (mental?) age of 9. ... .... much. But then I don't follow BBC all that much.

Since the autocorrect init caps is handy, the fix is to use the "autoreplace as you type" function to tell the wordprocessor that "Pc" is to be replaced by "PC," etc. The autocorrect happens first, and autoreplace will correct it back. This is a very big deal with companies that mix u.c. and l.c. in their company names, especially those that use an intital lower case with an uppercase following, so the fix is handy to know.

There is a trend toward not having editors and typesetters in the "news publication" business. What the reporter (now called an editor via title inflation) keys in is what gets printed, with minimal processing by dumb "formatter" programs. Perhaps BBC reporters (excuse me .... editors) just don't know how to use the programs the IT departments gave them.

John