Two questions for the "mainstream" news media, specifically the gnat-brains who write headlines...

[WilliamPitt]

1. When did "health care" become "healthcare"? Those are two separate words, not one big word. I know we live in a degraded age, but the space bar is right there by your thumb. Look down. See it? Good. Use it.

2. The "London Interbank Offered Rate" is the average interest rate estimated by the big banks in London to measure what they would be charged if they borrow from other banks. In describing the pan-galactic scandal surrounding the illegal gaming/fixing/​manipulation of this rate, can you please use the acronym LIBOR, rather than the lazy-ass I-can't-summon-the-will-to-hold-down-the-'Shi​ft'-key shortcut of "Libor"? Using "Libor" makes people think you're talking about a small island off the coast of Malaysia, and not about a credit rating that literally affects every human on the planet.

Sincerely Yours,

Not Stupid

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I will admit I've followed the lead on 'health care' as a single word.

[Newsjock]

2. LIBOR/Libor is mainly a Britishism

It's UK newspaper style not to capitalize most acronyms that can be easily pronounced. Ergo, AIDS becomes Aids and LOCOG (the Olympics organizing committee) becomes Locog.

But, as some might say, "When in America, speak American!"

[WilliamPitt]

3. It has creeped across the pond

In the rare (like seeing-Bigfoot rare) instance a stateside media outlet deigns to mention the scandal, the go with "Libor." They should be careful, because the Cia is watching, the Fbi is listening, Fdr used to be president, just like Lbj, and drilling in Anwr is still a bad idea.

[bbgrunt]

4. since interbank is spelled out as a single word it seems

more appropriate to call it LIOR, but that seems too close to a misspelled real truth.

[WilliamPitt]

5. It should be "Inter-Bank"

but one thing at a time.