I can say WAC---wack , but I can't pronounce usmuck.



"AES" wrote in message
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| In article
,
| Bob Noel wrote:
|
| 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.
|
| Afraid I missed that thread -- but just noticed that my
electronic
| American Heritage gives "WAC/Women's Army Corps" as an
example of an
| acronym, and "USMC/United States Marine Corps" as an
example of an
| abbreviation, with no cross-referencing between them.
Weird!