Re: UserFriendly.org: Truth in Acronyms

[der Mouse <mouse () Rodents Montreal QC CA>]

> > word formed from the initial letters of a series of words. (eg, IEEE
> > is an acronym for Institute of Electrical and Electronics
> > Engineers).
> Oddly, the definition and example don't make sense together -- please
> tell me how the fuck you pronounce the "word" IEEE --

Eye-triple-ee.  So?  Lots of words have even less obvious relation than
that between sound and spelling.

> IEEE is an abbreviation (unless I'm entirely unaware that it is
> normally pronounced "i-ee" or something, rather than "i-e-e-e" or
> "i-triple-e").

I fail to see how the latter pronunciations disqualify it as a word.
Certainly they make more obvious sense than what happens to the
prounuciation when you tack an "s" onto the beginning of "laughter".

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