Hi Grant, the red-gate SQL Server Team Based Development book I downloaded for free, Chapter 1, is very relevant to this topic....and very funny.

'Vowel Movement' referring to the practice of abbreviating object names by leaving out all vowels. So in stead of calling a table Subscriptions....it's Sbscrptn. "Abrvtng mdnss" . So funny.

All of chapter one is worth reading just because it is so funny.

xsevensixzx, I find brackets looks nice but is hard for me to do with proper typing technique (hard on pinky) and so many extra characters. But looks nice.