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# is it the dots that make the difference?
(checkers, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:44, archived)
# kind of
An acronym is an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word.

eg
S.C.U.B.A. is an abbreviation, but because you say it as scuba it's an acronym.
(nahguam, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:47, archived)
# but CIA isn't pronounced "scya"
it's See Aye Ay
(0800221155 Coldseal windows, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:48, archived)
# ^this
(checkers, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:50, archived)
# Hang on, thats not even slightly right.
(checkers, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:52, archived)
# Actually it's entirely right.


(I helped save b3ta! fool_on_the_hill, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:56, archived)
#
It seems it is. I never knew that.

Does that means that almost all the entries in this competition should really be here, because thing like wwf and BBC aren't acronyms?
(checkers, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 16:59, archived)
# Where's Doc G when you need him?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan https://twitter.com/VomitingLarry, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:00, archived)
# No
Because the specification of the challenge made it clear that they intended initialisms to be included (by the examples of BBC and CIA), even though they misused the word 'acronym'.
(I helped save b3ta! fool_on_the_hill, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:01, archived)
# ^^^This.
(Vega31, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:25, archived)
# actually, only about half
as it's not an abreviation for a word like st. for street or mr. for mister, it's the intials for a group of words.
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Sat 13 Aug 2005, 17:16, archived)