Ray Costanzo wrote: OK, that's clear. But HTML has never offered an <initialism> tag, so <acronym> is still needed. ;-)
> 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. -- David gn...@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
