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"Peter Duniho" wrote:

I'll have to correct every acronym list I've worked with... wait, the odds
of
the military changing are pretty low.

What's your point? That the military also misuses the word "acronym"? Are
we supposed to be surprised about that?

I suppose my point is that never before I have heard/read/seen anyone
anywhere complain that DME and VOR, for example, are not acronyms.
But the next time someone supposedly misuses a word such as acronym,
it won't be the last.


Did you see the latest AOPA rag? It uses the term "initialism" for DME
and VOR etc. That's even worse then our disagreement over the term
acronym and abbreviation.

Why? "Initialism" is a perfectly valid word and does describe both "DME"
and "VOR". Perhaps when you go look up the word "word", you'll take the
moment to check out "initialism" as well.

Already looked up "word" - the definitions were not useful to the discussion.
"initalism" isn't in my dictionary.

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