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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