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"Britt, James" wrote: > > Hmm. I thought acronyms were *words* formed by combining first letters, or > parts of other words, and therefore pronounceable (by definition). > > >From m-w.com: > "A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's > Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, > such as radar for radio detecting and ranging." > > So, TLA is a three-letter abbreviation. > > Picking nits, perhaps. An acronym doesn't have to be pronounceable.. take XSLT for example... ExSalt? Nope. An abbreviation is a shortening of any kind... like ex: for example... But an acronym is also an abbreviation. -- Tom Bradford - http://www.tbradford.org Developer - dbXML - http://www.dbxml.org Maintainer - jEdit-Syntax - http://syntax.jedit.org Co-Author - O'Reilly & Associates' "Learning dbXML"
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