- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:14:11 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Gez, All, At 00:00 16/07/2006, Gez Lemon wrote: >Hi Ben, > >On 10/07/06, Ben Caldwell <caldwell@trace.wisc.edu> wrote: >>acronym: abbreviation made from the initial letters or parts of a name >>or phrase that contains several words >> >>I think this might address both issue 1175 and the concerns you've >>described. >> >>Thoughts? > >That's a definition of an initialism. Acronyms are like initialisms, >except they can be pronounced as a word. Can we add, "pronounced as a >word" to the end? Otherwise, can we follow Jason's advice and remove >the definition from the glossary, as it's not essential to understand >the difference for accessibility? > >acronym: An abbreviation made from the initial letters or parts of a >name or phrase that contains several words, pronounced as a word. When we added the definition of acronym, we did not want to say that an acronym is always pronounced as a word, because lexicographers don't seem to agree on this. The French acronym/initialism O.N.U. (Organisation des Nations Unie: United Nations) can be pronounced as a word or letter by letter, depending on the preference of the speaker. So if you want something about pronunciation in the definition of acronym, you could add "which *may* be pronounced as a word", resulting in the following: acronym: abbreviated from made from the initial letters or parts of a name or phrase that contains several words and which may be pronounced as a word. (On the other hand, lexicographers never say that initialisms are pronounced as words.) Regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm
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