At 13:23 -0800 on 01/15/2010, Thierry Koblentz wrote about Re:
[css-d] [OT] RE: <u></u> - why did it have to die?:
>I don't agree.
>RADAR is an acronym because you're not supposed to spell the letters.
>CPU is an initialism, because you are supposed to spell the letters.
>
>Considering CPU (or else) as both an acronym and initialism would
>allow two different pronunciations.
Initialisms are a subset of Acronyms - IOW: All Initialisms are
Acronyms since both stand for the initial letter(s) of a phrase
("RAdio Detection And Ranging" and "Central Processing Unit"
respectively). The way the string is pronounced determines where an
Acronym is also an Initialism. The pronunciation does NOT prevent a
Initialism from being an Acronym.
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