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My dictionary has a definition of FOMO which is more nuanced than just spelling out an acronym, and it has a pronunciation which is not just the letters said on
by dan-robertson 4y ago
My dictionary has a definition of FOMO which is more nuanced than just spelling out an acronym, and it has a pronunciation which is not just the letters said one at a time.
So in this case I think spelling out the acronym is neither necessary (as articles typically needn’t define moderately well known words) nor sufficient (as the term’s meaning is more than just the expansion of the acronym).
- wizofaus 4y agoTechnically (by the original definition anyway) it's not an acronym unless you can pronounce it as a word. Most of what we call acronyms these days are "initialisms". Some of them are almost never used in speech anyway (I don't think I've ever heard anyone say 'FWIW', for instance - it's more 4 syllables than what it stands for!).
- dan-robertson 4y ago/ˈfəʊ.məʊ/ Guess it’s an acronym.
- wizofaus 4y agoYes, that was my point - technically it wouldn't be one otherwise.