2023-08-07 07:50:03
The initials PASOwhich alludes to the elections prior to the legislative ones that are held this Sunday in Argentina, develops with lowercase initials in all his words: primary, open, simultaneous and compulsory.
On the occasion of these primaries, in the media one can read phrases such as “The Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory Primaries (PASO) were created by the Government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner”, “The electoral year at the national level begins to gain strength with the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections” or “Postponed the publication of its monthly report until after the Primary, Open, Simultaneous and Mandatory (PASO) elections.”
The development of the initials is written in capital letters if it is a proper name (United Nations Organization unitedfrom HIM), while lowercase is preferred if it is a common name, as in foreign detention center (from CIE) or, in this case, primary, open, simultaneous and compulsory (from PASO).
Thus, in the initial examples, the appropriate thing to do would have been to use lowercase initials: «The open, simultaneous and compulsory primaries (PASO) were created by the Government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner», «The electoral year at the national level begins to gain strength with the primary, open, simultaneous and compulsory elections (PASO)” and “Postponed the publication of its monthly report until after the primary, open, simultaneous and compulsory (PASO) elections”.
On the other hand, it is recalled that the sail PASOwhich is written without points, remains singulareven if the reference noun being omitted is the plural elections: the (elections) STEP, no the STEPS.
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