• Melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    Except GNU is a great example of an acronym that is pronounceable. It’s even in the dictionary. The GNU mascot is a gnu, in fact.

    LGBTQIA+ is essentially unpronounceable, thus we treat it as an initialism. Not that that’s a requirement, there are examples like VIP where even though we could pronounce it we pronounce each letter individually.

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      7 months ago

      there are examples like VIP where even though we could pronounce it we pronounce each letter individually.

      This always seemed a bit weird to me. In Sweden we do pronounce that as a word. Vipp.