Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:49 GMT, David Lodge said:
> Must... not... be... pedantic... Must... not... be... pedantic...

> DMCA is *not* an acronym. It's an abbreviation. An acronym can be  
> pronounced (like radar, laser and NATO). DMCA cannot be pronounced  
> (easily: DAM-ca? DUM-ca?) ergo it is not an acronym...

If you're going to be pedantic, at least get it right:

Feeding 'define:acronym' to Google finds this:

word formed from the initial letters of a series of words. (eg, IEEE is an acronym for Institute of Electrical and 
Electronics Engineers).
www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/glossary.html

Out of the 15 hits that gets, they all agree that a word is formed by taking the
first letter of each word of the phrase, but only 3 or 4 get "pronounceable" as a
critical part of the definition.  Note that if there was an absolute requirement
for words to be pronounceable, Worcestershire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcestershire)
would be ruled illegal due to having an incorrect number of syllables, and any
loanword of Welsh origin would be taken out back and shot... ;)

IMNSHO, anyhow. HAND. ;)

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