Bill Pots wrote in USMA 25973:
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
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Bill Potts wrote in USMA 25962:
Unless you're pronouncing it as a word ("sigh"), it's not an acronym. It's simply initials.
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.Joseph B. Reid
I pronounce it as "ess-eye", but that is as good a word
as "NATO" or "OTAN"
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