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[quote=DexX]Don't blame Dr Pedantic for your dodgy dictionary - tonight he chose to possess a halfway-qualified linguist, who has a textbook which states: "Acronyms should be able to form pronounceable words. Examples that are pronouced just as strings of letters ... are not acronyms, but simply [b]abbreviations[/b] (or alphabetisms)." Burridge, Kate and Mulder, Jean "English in Australia and New Zealand - An Introduction to Its History, Structure and Use" (1998:126) Oxford University Press: Melbourne, Australia. One of my other textbooks calls them "initialisms" rather than "alphabetisms". Therefore, The Pedantic One was crack-free on that call.[/quote]
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