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AG wrote:
> An acronym vs a person's name?  Really ...

A woman's name.
A programming language.
The Americans with Disabilities Act.
The American Dental Association.
An Assistant District Attorney.
...

The reader of English, upon an encountering a word
which is all lower-case, capitalized, or all upper-case
will assign different provisional meanings to the word
based on that, even if he doesn't know what the word means.