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by thayne
873 days ago
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> yes, fine, this one's _technically_ an initialism From the wikipedia article on acronyms[1], an initialism is a kind of acronym. There are some definitions that specify that it must be pronounced as a word, although in common usage acronym includes initialisms , and what iteans to be "pronounced as a word" is kind of imprecise anyway. Is CIA pronounced as a single word, but the pronunciation comes from the pronunciation of the letters? I'd argue that it a single lexeme at least. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym |
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