Re: Acronyms Et Al.

To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Acronyms Et Al.
From: "David J. Aronson" <dja2003 at hotpop.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:40:12 -0500
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Florian Weimer wrote:

> I doubt that this distinction is helpful in our field.  Quite a
> few initialisms are brutally acronymed

And nouns brutally verbed....

>  by significant numbers of speakers ("SQL",

SQL was, once upon a time, called SEQUEL, with the first E standing for
English.  Reasons given vary.  Some say vaguely "legal reasons".  One
professor said the French objected.  B-)

 > "SCSI", "ACL", "TCAM").

TCAM is an example of a further phenomenon, the "partial acronym", at least when pronounced "tee-cam"....

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