Exactly my point,
Carleton, notwithstanding the rather peculiar contrarian position taken by Joe
and Gene.
Ess eye is not, of
course, a pronunciation of SI (which would be either see [for those who prefer
the Italian, Spanish or French approach] or sigh), but an enunciation of the two
letters -- i.e., the conventional English vocal _expression_ of the spelling. To
me, that quite definitively rules it out as an acronym.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville,
CA
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*acronym* A word formed by the combining of initial letters of a series
of words or syllables and letters of a series of words or a compound term.
Funk &Wagnalls Dictionary, International Edition.
In my opinion, the two-character "symbol" *SI* may be correctly called
an "acronym" or an "abbreviation."
The word usually has to be pronounceable as such to be a true acronym. The New York City Transit Authority had a subsidiary formed when they took over the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in 1962 called the Manhattan And Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority; New Yorkers actually pronounced the word made from the initials of this.
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