Favorite acronyms and the like?

[Silver]

You forgot the ML.

I don't do metric.

My Lawn.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't do metric.

My Lawn.

Mylawn? That plastic film stuff?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
Oh, labels.  What interesting things. They provoke such interesting discussions amongst the obsessed, lol

No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

Boru

[Silver]

My Lawn.

Mylawn? That plastic film stuff?

>__>

You stated: GTFO

It could have been: GTFOML

[FrustratedFool]

So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
Oh, labels.  What interesting things. They provoke such interesting discussions amongst the obsessed, lol

No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

Boru

I guess I don't know how to read dictionary entries very well.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No, both initialisms and acronyms are sub-categories of abbreviations.

Boru

I guess I don't know how to read dictionary entries very well.

I agree, but I’m not guessing.

Some types of abbreviations are acronyms (some pronounceable, some initialisms) or grammatical contractions or .

Boru

[Silver]

Here we go with the isms again.

[FrustratedFool]

The post I was referencing was:

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).

I misread that as saying an initialism came under the heading of an acronym.

See, first I agreed with you (why I said good catch), because you said what I had been taught about the differences between initialismand acronym. Then someone else disagreed with you and posted the OED entry above, and then I said 'so ...' and suggested that initialisms were a subcategory. Then you said I was wrong, so I agreed with you again by saying I must have read the posted OED entry wrong. Now you're saying that I was right to say I'd misread the OED, but are quoting somet other part of the full entry (I assume) than what was provided. Very confusing, lol 😆

I'll go back to my original agreement with you and say you were right to delineate the technical differences.

Where's David Crystal when you need him, lol ?

[FrustratedFool]

Here we go with the isms again.

Some people are obsessed with discussing terminlogical minutae and taxonomies and definitions etc. Funny world 😆

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Mylawn? That plastic film stuff?

>__>

You stated: GTFO

It could have been: GTFOML

UNLESS IT'S GET THE FUCK OUT!