- From: Christian Ottosson <f95-cot@f.kth.se>
- Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 04:19:42 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Neil Gulati wrote: > I understand: > > Abbreviation: > A shortening of an existing dictionary word. > e.g. Doctor->Dr. Telephone-> 'phone. > > Acronym: > A new word made up of the initial letters of other words. > This is usually a naming convention. An acronym is a noun. > e.g. Search for Extra-Terrestial Intelligence->SETI. So far I've understand it too. But I think the information differ wether acronyms are initial letters which can be pronounciated as a word (eg. SETI, NASA) or all inital letters -- even those which can't be pronounciated as the abbrevation (eg. HTTP, WWW). Is "HTTP" an acronym? -- Christian Ottosson http://www.f.kth.se/~f95-cot/
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