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re: What is your favorite acronym?
Posted on 10/5/14 at 7:09 pm to Carson123987
Posted on 10/5/14 at 7:09 pm to Carson123987
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These are all initialisms, not acronyms, fwiw
Give me a true acronym.
For instance, you would claim SCUBA is one, but SCBA is the same thing and you would call it an initialism.
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Posted on 10/5/14 at 7:11 pm to fightin tigers
An acronym should be able to be read as a word.
eta- I see your point with scuba.
eta- I see your point with scuba.
This post was edited on 10/5/14 at 7:12 pm
Posted on 10/5/14 at 10:00 pm to fightin tigers
Scuba is an acronym. Scba is an initialism
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