[Ads-l] AP: Internet -> internet and "to lowercase"

[Benjamin Barrett]

The AP has “internet” capitalized at https://www.apstylebook.com/?do=ask_editor&pg=faq <https://www.apstylebook.com/?do=ask_editor&pg=faq>; however, with their 2016 Stylebook release, they will stop capitalizing it, as per a tweet at http://bit.ly/1N3Qe6o <http://bit.ly/1N3Qe6o>. (Hopefully the rest of the world will follow this trend, though they are getting a lot of flack from people who seem to think it’s a proper noun.)

In their tweet, they also use the verb “to lowercase,” meaning to use lowercase letters.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle
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