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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 11:28 am
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 11:52 am
(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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Good catch.
The separation between NATO and BBC.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 12:11 pm
(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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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).
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 12:17 pm
(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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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.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 12:23 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 12:17 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 12:47 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 12:17 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: So initialism is a sub-category of acronym.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 1:19 pm
(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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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 1:20 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 1:19 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: GTFO.
You forgot the ML.
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 1:37 pm
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RE: Favorite acronyms?
October 31, 2023 at 1:42 pm
(October 31, 2023 at 1:20 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (October 31, 2023 at 1:19 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: GTFO.
You forgot the ML.
I don't do metric.
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