At 11:11 AM 4/2/2009, you wrote: >On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Pete Ahles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. > >Allow me to correct your pedantic ways with ways even more pedantic. >Acronym has two definitions (according to the folks at Webster). The >first definition is as you describe. The second is, simply, "an >abbreviation." > >I didn't believe it the first time I read it, either.
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