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All built-in Mathematica commands are case sensitve and written in camel case. Most are full english words. For example: FactorInteger, ListPlot, AsynchronousTaskObject etc.

A small number of abbreviation conventions are used: Predicates end in Q, eg PrimeQ, EvenQ, MatrixQ, numerical routines start with N, eg NSolve, NLimit, NMinimize. System variables start with $PreferencesDirectory, $TimeZone, $Version etc.