Pedants, you say?
I had thought the only meaning of acronym is what you term an initialism. I
hadn't seen that word before, but find that it "is an abbreviation made up
of initial letters that are all pronounced separately, for example UN for
United Nations" whereas an acronym is "a word formed from the initials or
other parts of several words, for example 'NATO', from the initial letters
of 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'".
Thank you Mark for teaching me something I didn't know - and to Chris who
knew it all along.
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Mark Marr-Lyon
Sent: 07 January 2005 00:04
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: Birth of Radar and C-360 or 370
Thanks Chris! I knew a couple, but not most of them. I was also going to
call them initialisms for the pedants out there, but discovered that acronym
can also mean an initialism. Of course that was from www.m-w.com, the
merits of which I believe have been discussed here before ;-)
Mark
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