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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: peltz@jaka.ece.uiuc.edu (Steve Peltz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 5 Jun 1997 16:17:34 GMT Organization: NovaNET Learning, Inc. Lines: 13 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5n6oqu$br@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> <3392FE4F.1667@att.com> <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: jaka.ece.uiuc.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45755 comp.os.linux.misc:179071 comp.os.linux.x:63616 alt.os.linux:21933 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3513 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42482 gnu.misc.discuss:31665 comp.unix.solaris:108781 In article <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> wrote: >No, they're abbreviations. eff-bee-eye is not a word, except in some >programming sense in which it has white space on either side of it. I'm sorry, what's wrong with pronouncing FBI as ef-bee-eye? Certainly a lot simpler pronounciation than some other words. Just because it is also the pronounciation of the individual letters of the word doesn't mean it isn't a word. An alternate pronounciation of FBI is "fed-ur-ul- byoo-row-uv-in-ves-tig-ay-shun". How do you pronounce "amt."? Now there's an abbreviation that is not an acronym. Is it still a word? "am-mut"?