- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:51:31 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> All acronyms are just a subset of abbreviations, so there's no need for > an extra element. The big problem with acronyms is that the word is certainly more often misused than not in British English and there seems to be an argument that it really doesn't have the British English meaning of an abbreviation that forms a pronouncable word, which is spoken as a word, when used in other languages, and possibly even in other regional variants of English. The reason that it is a special subset of abbreviation is that it requires special handling in text to speech applications. It is a source of frequent debate, on these lists!
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