Actually, an acronym is pronounced as a word, and an initialism is not, as is my understanding.
Abbreviation: Mr. Acronym: SCUBA Initialism: FBI On Jan 15, 2010, at 2:10 AM, david <gn...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > Chris F.A. Johnson wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, david wrote: >> > > No, an acronym is usually pronounced as individual letters. (Some > may be > pronounced now as "words".) Abbreviations are never pronounced > letter-by-letter. > > "Mr." is NOT an acronym, it's an abbreviation. > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
