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Subject: [OM] Re: Birth of Radar and C-360 or 370
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:37:15 +0000
We like to think of ourselves as "sticklers" really; "pedants" has such 
a pejorative tone these days.  That lovely lady Lynn Truss used 
stickler and I think I shall go along with her.. ;-)

I must confess that I had not heard of the word "initialism", only 
"initials", so I can't take any credit really :-)

Chris
On 7 Jan 2005, at 09:59, Piers Hemy wrote:

> Pedants, you say?
>
> I had thought the only meaning of acronym is what you term an 
> initialism.  I
> hadn't seen that word before, but find that it "is an abbreviation 
> made up
> of initial letters that are all pronounced separately, for example UN 
> for
> United Nations" whereas an acronym is "a word formed from the initials 
> or
> other parts of several words, for example 'NATO', from the initial 
> letters
> of 'North Atlantic Treaty Organization'".
>
> Thank you Mark for teaching me something I didn't know - and to Chris 
> who
> knew it all along.
>
> --
> Piers
>
<|_:-)_|>
C M I Barker
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