Overheard: cAmel hUmp/cAmel hUmping

I came across the term CAMEL HUMP today while listening to a podcast. The person speaking used it to describe the typographical name for using random uppercase letters within words or letter strings, such as the P in iPod,, the D in InDesign and the W in my own example bigWord.

I know a lot of designers like to fuse words together the make new brands, like "thelondonpaper" etc, but also, a lot of names are turning up with capital letters in the middle of them now, like you may have heard of arXiv.org. Instead of making it arxiv they prefer arXiv.

While I always find this kind of thing annoying, I never knew that it had a name. I do now: a letter like this is called a CAMEL HUMP; a lot of web programmers use CAMEL HUMPING in CSS code, such as when they create styles, e.g. SubHead. So there you go! A cAmel hUmp.