There has been an excess of 20-25 posts on this subject, folks. I mean, perhaps we've been "overdiscussing" it...
In any case, based on what I've heard so far, Bill's position seems 'incontestable' (well done!), with initialism being well presented as well. So... can we please move on and finally accept SI as being an abbreviation and initialism, for sure, and symbol as acceptable? Thanks. Marcus On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 21:24:06 Bill Potts wrote: >Exactly my point, Carleton, notwithstanding the rather peculiar contrarian >position taken by Joe and Gene. > >Ess eye is not, of course, a pronunciation of SI (which would be either see >[for those who prefer the Italian, Spanish or French approach] or sigh), but >an enunciation of the two letters -- i.e., the conventional English vocal >expression of the spelling. To me, that quite definitively rules it out as >an acronym. >Bill Potts, CMS >Roseville, CA >http://metric1.org [SI Navigator] > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 18:45 > To: U.S. Metric Association > Subject: [USMA:26019] RE: my German friend never heard of SI > > > In a message dated 2003-06-11 20:40:43 Eastern Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > *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." > > > The word usually has to be pronounceable as such to be a true acronym. >The New York City Transit Authority had a subsidiary formed when they took >over the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in 1962 called the Manhattan And Bronx >Surface Transit Operating Authority; New Yorkers actually pronounced the >word made from the initials of this. > > cm > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
