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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

What acronyms are you annoyed to see take on other meanings?

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What acronyms are you annoyed to see take on other meanings?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.

I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?

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Isn’t an initialism a subcategory of acronym by definition?
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  Other way around. Acronyms are a subcategory of initialisms, specifically the ones that can be read as if they’re words.

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