I am on your side, John, but Merriam-Webster is not. Major dictionaries now include “an initialism” or words describing one, as the second definition of “acronym “. Language evolves. Sadly, sometimes. 

acronym

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Definition of acronym

: a word (such as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound termalso  : an abbreviation (such as FBI) formed from initial letters : INITIALISM
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On Wed, Oct 5, 2022 at 6:11 PM John Sweeney via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

Acronym: “An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA, radar, UNICEF, laser)”.

 

Snafu, below, is an acronym.  Most of the rest are just abbreviations. If you can’t pronounce it, then it is not an acronym.

 

My apologies for interrupting this thread, but I love the word, and the concept, and hate to see it being misused! :-)

 

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                   John                                  

                                   

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From: Don Veino via Organizers <organizers@lists.sharedweight.net>
Sent: 05 October 2022 20:01
To: Paul Rosenberg <paul@homespun.biz>; A list for dance organizers <organizers@sharedweight.net>
Subject: [Organizers] Re: Some examples of COVID policies

 

TBH, I'm ROTFL. FWIW, IMO I think BTBA's SNAFU needs addressing IRL - how did COVID and NY pass your filter? SMH. LOL. IDK, but YOLO and I think it's NBD when a post gives you all the information spelled out and the insignificant bit is an acronym. But NWM, IAG! CYA on the flip side, TTYL. JK. ;-)

 

-DV

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