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US cooking oil market shrinking due to Ice pressures on Latino households, Mazola owner says
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The Guardian should capitalize ICE as I was like: what does cold ice has to do with it?
British English, or at least some house styles used by some British publications, tends to capitalize words based on how they're pronounced rather than their meaning.
So, "FBI" is spoken by one saying each letter. "Eff" "Bee" "Eye". NASA is not
"Nahsaw".
Under the approach that The Guardian uses, you'd capitalize each letter in "FBI" but not "Nasa".
In American English, the capitalization depends on the meaning. If it's an acronym, you always capitalize it. If it isn't, you don't. With very few exceptions, all three-letter-or-fewer acronyms are spoken letter-by-letter, and all four-letter-or-greater are spoken as words, so you generally don't need the hint from writing. In the US, you'd have "FBI" and "NASA".
According to Wiktionary, "ICE" has valid pronunciations going both as a word or as a series of letters:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ICE
So if you use the "one word" pronunciation, then you'd expect The Guardian to write it as "Ice".
EDIT: looks at parent's home instance If you're a Canuck, I believe that the appropriate protocol in most instances of British English/American English differences is to do whichever you want and then state that whatever you're doing is Canadian English.
Initialism (FBI, CIA) vs acronym (ICE, NASA)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym
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