More from the NYT

[Martin Kaminer]

I was surprised to see in today's article entitled "Alone in Public
Housing, With a Spare Bedroom"
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/nyregion/housing-authority-also-has-an-undercrowding-problem.html
that New York City Housing Authority was spelled 'Nycha' rather than
in all caps.  All local policy wonks (and one imagines facility
residents) refer to it as /Nai-tS^/ but seeing it in print converted
from an acronym to a word seemed a bit jarring.  I don't think one can
do case-sensitive searches on the NYT archives but from my cursory
perusal this seems to be a first.

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