On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Bill Potts wrote: > ... > The concise definition of acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters > of the words of a compound term."
*acronym* A word formed by the combining of initial letters of a series of words or syllables and letters of a series of words or a compound term. Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary, International Edition. In my opinion, the two-character "symbol" *SI* may be correctly called an "acronym" or an "abbreviation." > Do you, Joe, pronounce SI as "sigh" or as "ess eye?" I say "ess eye"; and think of it as a two-syllable acronym. Gene.
