(October 31, 2023 at 12:11 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(October 31, 2023 at 11:24 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Picking a nit: a lot of the above are not acronyms, but ‘initialisms’, which are a set of letters that don’t form a pronounceable word.
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Boru
Oxford English Dictionary Wrote:acronym, n.
1. A group of initial letters used as an abbreviation for a name or expression, each letter or part being pronounced separately; an initialism (such as ATM, TLS).
So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
Oh, labels. What interesting things. They provoke such interesting discussions amongst the obsessed, lol
