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NEC: is it "neck" or N-E-C? zeb7k 11-03-2006
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Posted by RicodJour on November 3, 2006, 10:40 pm


Steve Barker LT wrote:
> It's not an acronym unless it's pronounced as a word. If spelled out, or it
> doesn't make a word it's just an abbreviation.

Interesting. I hadn't realized that if the letters didn't make a
pronounceable word, it wasn't an acronym. If it's spelled out, though,
it's not really an abbreviation, it's an initialism. I wouldn't have
known the latter if you hadn't sent me to the dictionary on the former.
Thanks, Steve.

R


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Posted by Mark Lloyd on November 4, 2006, 12:28 pm


wrote:

>Steve Barker LT wrote:
>> It's not an acronym unless it's pronounced as a word. If spelled out, or it
>> doesn't make a word it's just an abbreviation.
>
>Interesting. I hadn't realized that if the letters didn't make a
>pronounceable word, it wasn't an acronym.
>If it's spelled out, though,
>it's not really an abbreviation, it's an initialism. I wouldn't have
>known the latter if you hadn't sent me to the dictionary on the former.
> Thanks, Steve.
>
>R

My mother worked in a library, and used "initialism" that way too. I
don't hear it much.
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Posted by Charlie Morgan on November 4, 2006, 8:21 am


On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:02:19 -0600, "Steve Barker LT"

>It's not an acronym unless it's pronounced as a word. If spelled out, or it
>doesn't make a word it's just an abbreviation.
>

It's not an abbreviation, it's an initialism.

CWM

>Then you have the people who insist on being redundant. Some examples:
>vin number
>nic card
>pin number
>
>this drives me up a wall when people say these.

Then you should switch to the coffee in the green can! 8^)



Posted by George E. Cawthon on November 4, 2006, 6:32 pm


Charlie Morgan wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 21:02:19 -0600, "Steve Barker LT"
>
>> It's not an acronym unless it's pronounced as a word. If spelled out, or it
>> doesn't make a word it's just an abbreviation.
>>
>
> It's not an abbreviation, it's an initialism.
>
> CWM
>
>> Then you have the people who insist on being redundant. Some examples:
>> vin number
>> nic card
>> pin number
>>
>> this drives me up a wall when people say these.
>
> Then you should switch to the coffee in the green can! 8^)
>
>

Initialism? Who coined this? It's still an
abbreviation even if only the intials are used.

Posted by RicodJour on November 4, 2006, 8:05 pm


George E. Cawthon wrote:
>
> Initialism? Who coined this? It's still an
> abbreviation even if only the intials are used.

An abbreviation in its strictest sense is merely a shortened form of
the word. An initialism uses the initial letters.

http://www.answers.com/topic/acronym-and-initialism

R


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