[ubuntu-uk] acronyms?

[Tony Arnold]

Sean Miller wrote:
> Nik Butler wrote:
>> Llywelyn Owen wrote:
>>   
>>> By the way these are not acronyms they're abbreviations. Sorry to be 
>>> so pedantic!
>>>     
>> you know what . he is correct as well , they are Abbreviations, and it 
>> is being pedantic. Though for the record im being ironic . ( i think!  )
>>   
> ac?ro?nym /??kr?n?m/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled 
> Pronunciation[*ak*-r/uh/-nim] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
> --noun
> 1. 	a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words 
> in a set phrase or series of words, as /Wac/ from /Women's Army Corps,/ 
> /OPEC/ from /Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,/ or /loran/ 
> from /long-range navigation./
> 
> 
> So, how precisely can JFDI and LW2A be said to not be acronyms?

Because they are not words?

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Tony.
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