Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 14:53:37 -0500 From: "Deborah G. Lidl" <deborah.lidl@windriver.com> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@FreeBSD.ORG>, John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: <acronym> Message-ID: <20010825145337.A7904@bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <20010817193635.K59279@clan.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:36:35PM %2B0100 References: <hinont8fhal36o8pusq5c3jvc9t2thmdll@4ax.com> <20010817091230.A59279@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010817183259.B275@parish> <20010817193635.K59279@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 07:36:35PM +0100, Nik Clayton said: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:32:59PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: > > > An acronym is anything formed from (typically the initial) letters from > > > a phrase. > > > > ...that forms a word (either real or contrived), so BIOS and SCSI are > > acronyms, but IDE isn't (unless you pronounce it "eyed"), and neither is > > PCI, IBM, etc. > > What're things like "IDE" referred to then? Initialisms. One of the first references that Google provided was the Dr. Grammar FAQ: http://www.drgrammar.org/faq.cfm#25 Of course, the Merriam-Webster dictionary said an initialism is an acronym made up of the initial letters of a set of words. Debbie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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