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In article <3392FE4F.1667@att.com>, Allen Kirby  <akirby@att.com> wrote:
>Mike Ellis wrote:
><snip>
>> Sorry to spoil the fun but these are not acronyms. An acronym is an
>> abbreviation which can be pronounced as if it were a word. How on
>> earth does one pronounce tcsh ?  Most TLAs (three letter acronyms) are
>> not TLAs at all. In fact TLA is not a TLA itself.
>
>Wrong.  Acronyms are words created from the first letters of other
>words, such as:
>
>FBI,MRI,IBM,FDA,FAA,AT&T 
>
>Some are pronouncable, like RADAR, but it's the exception.  If what you

This was more pronouncable in the mid twentees, when the first german
RADAR units were called "Funkmess" ;-) But then UK/US guys rewrote history
and claimed that they invented RADAR.

>say is correct, none of the words above would be acronyms.  And they're
>certainly not abbreviations, so what are they?

So the abbreviation that I chosed for my UNIX tools/utilities should be
an acronym, too?

SING (Schily Is Not GNU)

Joerg

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