I do believe Eric himself shut this conversation down a couple of days
ago. It's not in any way related to CSS.
Theresa
On Jan 17, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Bob Rosenberg wrote:
> 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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