Bill Potts wrote in USMA 25962:
Unless you're pronouncing it as a word ("sigh"), it's not an acronym. It's simply initials.
(NATO and UNESCO are acronyms.)
[I hope I'm not being picky, but misuse of the word acronym is one of my pet peeves.]
I can't find "acronym" in my dictionaries. However
"SI" is the same in all languages, whereas NATO is OTAN in
French. Further, "SI" is not simply initial letters in
English where it stands for "The Interrnational System of
Units". If SI were simply initials it would have to be IS in
English.
--
Joseph B. Reid
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Telephone 416-486-6071
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