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Subject:Re: How do you pronouce LED? From:Scott McClare <smcclare -at- DY4 -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 6 Aug 1998 14:12:07 -0400
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From: Howard and Becky Faye [SMTP:habco -at- INTERNET-ZAHAV -dot- NET]
Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 1998 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: How do you pronouce LED?
>> I am trying to decide whether to use *a* or *an* in front of
this
>>acronym. Do people generally spell out LED when they say it? Or do
they
>>pronounce it as if it were a heavy metal?
>It would be 'an LED' since the 'el' sound is predominant at the
beginning.
>And, the pronunciation is el-ee-dee . . . the actual letters. It is an
>acronym.
<pedant>
Er, no. If LED were pronounced like the heavy metal, THEN it would be
an acronym. Since it is spelled out - "ell-ee-dee" - it is an
abbreviation.
Acronyms are abbreviations that are pronounced as words - for example,
NASA, ASCII, or Perl, but not FBI, KJV, or LED.
</pedant>
Scott
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