AP changes its style to lowercase ‘internet’ and ‘web’

Associated Press editors announced this weekend at the American Copy Editors Society’s conference that the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words “internet” and “web.” AP standards editor Thomas Kent says the changes “reflect a growing trend toward lowercasing both words, which have become generic terms.” Adam Nathaniel Peck wrote last year that “internet” should be lowercase because most people don’t think of it as a proper noun anymore.

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