I checked the Globe and Mail, and it appears their style is lowercase P on
petri dish. I wish I knew their reasoning.
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Subject: [mea] Re: spelling: Petri versus petri dish
There’s Melba toast named after opera singer Nellie Melba. It’s capped in my
OED. Generally, though, lower case looks more modern. I think we’re finally got
from Internet to internet. But if it is named after someone like Melba or
Petri, then I would say caps. (I’m not sure I’m being at all helpful.)
On Dec 7, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Peters Susan
<speters110@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:speters110@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hello,
A client asked me to deliver an authoritative ruling on the spelling of Petri
dish versus petri dish. It's apparently named after Julius Petri, a German
bacteriologist. My dictionary (Oxford) has it with a capital P. I see some
examples with a lowercase p.
Are there any thoughts about: American versus U.K. spelling, does it look more
modern to change from uppercase to lowercase?
I was trying to think of similar examples: where an uppercase is used to
signify that an object was due to an inventor. But I can only think of
trademarked cases.
--Susan Peters
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