Joe Coughlin wrote:
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> If you really want an acronym for Fox, you can kick it old-school and
> call it FBC as in "How did 'Beans Baxter' do in the ratings for FBC?"
>
> "Will Terry Rakolta's constant complaining hurt "Married...With
> Children" on FBC?"
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As long as we're being pedant, HBO, AMC, and FBC are not acronyms. They
do not form a word, so they are abbreviations or initalisms. Acronyms
are abbreviations that form a word like RADAR.
Pete
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