Hi Joe, Bill sirs: I am joining just for musing.
I can't find "acronym" in my dictionaries. However "SI" is the same in all.....This is 'ess eye' as the abbreviation in all languages for Systeme Internationale d'Unites, to mean SI system of Units. Perhaps this is the only *acronym* that is not SIU, UIS or USI. Just SI!
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From: "Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:25973] RE: my German friend never heard of SI Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 18:37:28 -0700
Re: [USMA:25962] RE: my German friend never heard of SYou've lost me there,
Joe. Whether the initials are in the right order or not makes no difference
to fact that they are initials. With SI, they are in fact in the right order
(Système Internationale).
I have several dictionaries. Acronym is in all of them. NATO and OTAN, as
pronounceable contrived words, are both, by definition, acronyms. The Oxford
American Dictionary uses NATO as its example. Webster's uses the
no-longer-current WAC (Women's Army Corps).
The concise definition of acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters
of the words of a compound term."
Do you, Joe, pronounce SI as "sigh" or as "ess eye?" Bill Potts, CMS Roseville, CA http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
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Subject: [USMA:25970] RE: my German friend never heard of SI
Bill Potts wrote in USMA 25962:
Unless you're pronouncing it as a word ("sigh"), it's not an acronym.
It's simply initials.
(NATO and UNESCO are acronyms.)
[I hope I'm not being picky, but misuse of the word acronym is one of my
pet peeves.]
I can't find "acronym" in my dictionaries. However "SI" is the same in all
languages, whereas NATO is OTAN in French. Further, "SI" is not simply
initial letters in English where it stands for "The Interrnational System of
Units". If SI were simply initials it would have to be IS in English.
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