[G4] Correct English Flame War

Richard Klein richspk at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 11:20:05 PST 2009


If we're going to get all pedantic about semantics, I'll point out
that terms such as CS4 or RPM aren't really acronyms, but rather
initialisms or abbreviations (although I think the de facto definition
of acronym is expanding to include initialisms).  Traditionally, an
acronym is an abbreviation that becomes a word of it's own, one that
you can pronounce.  Examples would be SONAR or SCOTUS.

-- 
Rich


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