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As far as I can tell, the CDC is also stating an is-a relationship: > an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters
by gameman144 3y ago
As far as I can tell, the CDC is also stating an is-a relationship:
> an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters
- sebastiennight 3y agoBut it contradicts their earlier definition: > an acronym is made up of parts of the phrase it stands for and is pronounced as a word I think their guideline is badly written. It's written like this: > There are vehicles, bicycles and motorbikes. A vehicle takes you from point A to point B. A bicycle is a human-powered transportation device. A motorbike is a bicycle propelled by an engine. For the purposes of this article, all three will be called "vehicles" in the rest of the text. They're not saying "an initialism is part of the class Acronym, with added details", they're saying "an initialism is basically like the class Acronym, but pronunciation (which was how we defined Acronyms) is different.