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RE: A/An

Subject: RE: A/An
From: "Lurker writer" <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 07:48:06 -0500

David said:

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.<<

An acronym is the pronounceable combination of the first letters of a series of words; an initialism is the unpronounceable combination of the first letters of a series of words, and then there are abbreviations. SQL, VBA, and ASP are examples of initialisms; SNAFU, NASA, and WYSIWYG are acronyms; Inc., corp., and Ltd. are abbreviations.



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