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AI is an initialism since you don't pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
On the other hand everyone says "acronym" even when they know the word "initialism" so I'm not entirely sure you're really completely correct
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
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Now this is the kind of pedantry I'm here for
Don't tell me what to do.
Whatever you do, don't follow this advice.
Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?
I always forget this, thanks
AI is pronounced "ay-eye"
Are ya ready kids!
Do SQL next!
Correct:
Incorrect:
The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
It's interesting that Wikipedia says it's pronounced " S-Q-L" but was historically pronounced "sequel."
Also interesting, MySQL says on their site:
Lastly, for those curious, PostgreSQL says on their site:
Post Graduate Squirrel
Squirrel.
Where?!
:: confused ADHD noises ::
Outside, but you'll have to touch grass to reach it.
Outside? Hard pass.
My people often pronounce nginx as "n-ginsk" not "engine x".
We call things "bits", "bytes", and my favorite: "nybbles". IT is rife with wordplay. How could they not think it was a cool way to spell "enigne"?!
sad pikachu
Squeal?
You're one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.
Soft G folk are just objectively wrong. Not only is Jif a peanut butter, it's a damn file extension: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif
I don't care how inconsequential it is, I will die on this hill.
I like the cut of your jib.
|ay| checkmate atheists.
Is initialism a type of acronym? Or do they have an umbrella term? Surely, they are the same thing, but if initialism has easily string-able sounds it's an acronym (ex. CPU vs. RAM). And some are even both depending on person saying it, like LED.
Other way around.
An acronym is a type of initialism, which is itself a type of abbreviation.
So acronyms are initialisms where you pronounce the letters like a word (e.g., RAM), initialisms are abbreviations made by taking the initial letters of multiple words and concatenating them regardless of how it's spoken (e.g. FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation), and an abbreviation is any shortening of a word or phrase into something shorter (e.g., "abbrev." for abbreviation or "US" for United States).
Is pronouncing LED like an acronym common? I've never heard it, and it would take me a while to work out what they're on about if they're talking about "lead"
It doesn't happen very often, but I've heard it used that way. It's usually obvious from context, like I think I heard with "OLED vs. LED". And as @[email protected] mentioned, it's used a lot in languages other than English, in my experience in many slavic ones, for example.