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Update Editorial Style Guide: DRep vs dRep (#1325)
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* Add suggestion and reasoning for writing DRep vs dRep

* Add hard fork

* Update docs/portal-style-guide.md

Co-authored-by: Robert Phair <rphair@cosd.com>

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Co-authored-by: Robert Phair <rphair@cosd.com>
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katomm and rphair authored Sep 30, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -831,12 +831,14 @@ To make everything consistent we should agree on spellings and terms here.
| `Basho` | The fourth era of the Cardano development focused on performance. Named after Matsuo Basho, a Japanese poet and the master of haiku. |
| `Byron` | First era in Cardano development. Named after the Romantic poet who was the father of Ada Lovelace. |
| `the Cardano Foundation` | Always use **the** Cardano Foundation. |
| `DApps` | Note the capitalization: Decentralized Application. |
| `DApp` | Note the capitalization: Decentralized Application. |
| `dcSpark` | Creators of Flint Wallet and Milkomeda. Capitalized S, everything else lower case. |
| `DRep` | Note the capitalization: Delegated Representative. `DRep` as an abbreviation for Delegated Representative follows standard practices for abbreviations in English: taking the first letter of each word. This makes it intuitive and clear in most contexts. It is also in line with the `DApp` abbreviation. In crypto, the lowercase “d“ is often used to signify “decentralized,” as in dApp (decentralized application) or dGov (decentralized governance). Using “dRep” might imply “decentralized representative”.|
| `EMURGO` | All caps in line with EMURGO’s branding. |
| `the Foundation` | Interchangeable with `the Cardano Foundation`, the is not capitalized, but Foundation should be. |
| `GitHub` | Note the capitalized H. |
| `Goguen` | The third era of the Cardano development focused on smart contracts. Named in honour of Joseph Goguen, an US computer scientist. |
| `hard fork` | Two words. |
| `IOHK` | IOHK is now IOG. |
| `IOG` | IOG was IOHK. |
| `Mainnet` | One word. Capitalise when it's a noun (the _Mainnet_) but not when it's an adjective (_mainnet_ functionality), qualified by another proper name (the Cardano _mainnet_), or used as a symbol (e.g. enable Marlowe on `mainnet`). |
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