RE: A/An

Subject: RE: A/An
From: "David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 13:55:36 -0500


> Um, this isn't a "word" we're talking about here. It's an acronym. An
> acronym (for those who don't know) is an abbreviation of a term using the
> prominent letters in the term (usually the first letter of each
> word in the
> term).

The style guide where I work specifies that an acronym must be
pronounceable, such as RADAR or SCUBA. Anything that can't be pronounced as
a word is just an abbreviation. I'd never heard this view before, and it
seems a little odd to me.

David Berg


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RE: A/An: From: Swallow, William

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