Comments on: MINI Kerfuffle http://www.thetruthaboutgrammar.com/2009/03/mini-kerfuffl/ Fighting the War on Error Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:12:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: wintin http://www.thetruthaboutgrammar.com/2009/03/mini-kerfuffl/#comment-16 wintin Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:48:23 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutgrammar.com/228/#comment-16 I thought they used 'MINI' because the new version of the car was BIGGER than the old little 'Mini'... They might have called it the Midi-Mini or perhaps the Maxi-Mini - or the Mini-Midi, Mini-Maxi.... 'Super Mini' would have made some marketing sense... What I disapprove of more than the use of CAPITALS is to call it the 'new MINI', because it isn't new anymore, is it.... I thought they used ‘MINI’ because the new version of the car was BIGGER than the old little ‘Mini’… They might have called it the Midi-Mini or perhaps the Maxi-Mini – or the Mini-Midi, Mini-Maxi…. ‘Super Mini’ would have made some marketing sense…

What I disapprove of more than the use of CAPITALS is to call it the ‘new MINI’, because it isn’t new anymore, is it….

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