Canthook

What's an LF club?, the boss asked me, while seated at the computer.

Usually, when she's asking a question like this, it's "is xyzzzyx a word?" or "what does qwerty mean?" because she's playing "Word Wizard", a scrabble game included in Microsoft's "Bicycle Board Games". They use an English dictionary for that game, rather than an American dictionary, so there are all sorts of words the computer uses that she's never heard of. And in many cases, that I've never heard of.

I googled and found that there was CALF, the "Capital Area Large Format" Club, apparently a group of photographers that liked sheet-film cameras. At "digital spy", I found out that the first rule of LF - meaning live feed - is that you do not talk about LF Club. The folks at Office Furniture Outlet are selling a Global 3371 Sirena LF Club Chair, which is a modern-style club chair. The folks at Ludlow Fitness will let you transfer your membership to another LF club. Nothing that looked AT ALL of interest to my trophy wife.

Could you give me a context for it, I asked?

Sure, she said. The Wrenda Lego LF Club is up at Hershey.

I did a quick check and found that Hershey Links Golf Course, newly renamed, was recently known as Wren Dale Golf Club. It's supposed to be something; I don't play golf, so I don't know.

Which brings us to URLs. The part to the left of the domain name is the protocol used, and it is usually case-insensitive, depending on the browser. The part to the right of the domain name is often case-sensitive, and it depends on the webserver. The domain name itself? It's case-insensitive. It's ALWAYS case-insensitive. And for that reason, it should always be TitleCased.

If you TitleCase Wrenda Lego LF Club, it turns into WrenDaleGolfClub, and people can understand that. If you print "WRENDALEGOLFCLUB" or "wrendalegolfclub", it sometimes turns into WrendaLegoLFClub.

If you want to call it CamelCase, that's fine, too. Officially, TitleCase means the first letter after a space is capitalized, while CamelCase means that the first letter of a word, even if there's no space preceding it, is capitalized. CamelCase is more correct that TitleCase, but the problem with CamelCase is that advertising men and typesetters have never heard of it - it's a computer programmer's term.

In any "case", could you pass the word along, please? There are an awful lot of people in advertising that seem to be clueless of the havok they cause....

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