Does one letter count as an acronym?


P.S. A cute kitten in a dress.
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:24, archived)

no

( urbane legend has known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:28, archived)

Bum.
I suppose zero is out of the question, then?
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:31, archived)

Zebra's Eating Rotten Oranges?
Might work you know.
(Yamon I have a problem solver and it's name is revolver., Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:44, archived)

zero isn't an acronym already though.
isn't that the point?
( urbane legend has known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:49, archived)

yep.
That's just a word. try Scuba. silly cunts under boats...erm.....ARSE!
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:46, archived)

about 95%
of the compo entries don't count as acronyms either.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:33, archived)

technically, no
but the compo blurb uses BBC and CIA, so it's no wonder people are confused
( Blue Shadow has 45 seconds in the Crystal Dome, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:36, archived)

it's the compo
people are always confused. They hardly ever read and digest the thing, it's just a mad scrabble to produce a shit idea more shoddily and quicker than the next guy. Some compo entries are shocking, I can't understand why people can't step back a second and look at what they are actually doing.

The easiest ones to think of would be computer languages, plenty of them still not done. Cobol, Pascal, Basic, Perl, Java ad nauseum. And I did not check but I'm sure Yuppie is still to be done.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:44, archived)

I'm still confused
because I am thick as shit and can't work out what a real acronym actually is. *hasn't been arsed to Google to find out either*
(Evil Lu - with three rats, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:46, archived)

For it to be an acronym, the abbreviation itself has to be a word
So BBC is not an acronym because there's no such word as 'bbc'.

:edit: On looking it up, it would appear this is not quite the case. An acronym has to be pronouncable as a word. So BBC isn't because we pronounce it 'bee bee sea' (letter by letter) but BUPA is because we pronounce it as if it's a word (even though it isn't).
( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:49, archived)

Oh I seeeeeeeeeeeee
*lightbulb in braincell clicks ON*
Cheers :)
(Evil Lu - with three rats, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:51, archived)

but you could do BBC in the compo.
it's just a theme for doing silly pictures, so BBC, NASA, BNP, BA, LASER, NORAD, NOMAD, and RADAR, etc, are all valied 'shops as far as i'm concerned.
( urbane legend has known the inexorable sadness of pencils, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:59, archived)

Yes
The only thing that's wrong is that the word 'acronym' in the challenge description. It was made clear by example that they in fact meant any initialism.
( fool_on_the_hill, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 12:02, archived)

Yes of course
In fact my entry ( first and probably last ) was for British Petroleum, BP as it gave me an option to have a sneaky dig at one of my political pet hates, the ogliarchal oil industry.
( Zoot Cadillac . do androids dream of electric sheep?, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 12:06, archived)

Damn, I wish I could think of a good tech-related acronym.
Oh well, I'll just use my laser mouse to click over to the weather radar page instead.
(Indole Ring, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 11:59, archived)