- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <unagi69@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:15:15 -0500
- To: "Chuck Baslock" <cbaslock@kansas.net>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Cc: WAI Interest Group Emailing List <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
aloha, chuck and charles!
you both have a very good point about the use of initial letters to compose
acronyms, but despite the etymology of the word, acronym, for pronunciation
purposes, initial letters are not always used in the composition of an
acronym...
off-list, chuck agreed with me that the use of 3 double-ewes as a shortened
form of World Wide Web is an acronym, but posited that W3C is an
abbreviation...
i would argue that W3C is an abbreviated acronym, but an acronym nonetheless...
pedantically yours,
gregory.
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