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https://www.wordnik.com/words/acronym https://www.wordnik.com/words/acronym But... an initialism is an acronym. So it's both. > an initialism is an acronym th
by neogodless 5y ago
https://www.wordnik.com/words/acronym https://www.wordnik.com/words/acronym
But... an initialism is an acronym. So it's both.
> an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters
EDIT: Guess it depends on the source; even my link above says an acronym is "a pronounceable word", but another link I had clicked on had the quote above. shrug
- dspillett 5y agoI was taught the other way around: an acronym is an initialism that can be pronounced as a word, all acronyms are initialisms but not all initialisms are acronyms.