Re: Acronyms, abbreviations and initalisms

Subject: Re: Acronyms, abbreviations and initalisms
From: Peter Lewicke <plewicke -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:24:23 -0800 (PST)

That's splitting hairs pretty thinly. One person's
initialism can be another person's acronymism. I never
pronounce "IRA" the same as the given name that is
spelled the same way, but I sometimes pronounce "IRS"
as "errs". Such a list of variable ways to say such a
thing would be very long.



--- David Tinsley <dtinsley -at- ndigital -dot- com> wrote:

> Am I the only person who gets irritated when
> initalisms are incorrectly
> described as acronyms? The distinction is quite
> obvious and simple and
> yet time after time I see lists of "acronyms" that
> are initialisms and
> this from technical communicators. The latest
> example I have just seen
> is on the last page of April 06 Intercom magazine.
>
> Just a Friday rant!
>
> David
>
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