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[challenge entry] TGMTFH

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(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:48, archived)
# ris
(I helped save b3ta! MontyyouterribleCUNT I gave Jeremy Kyle cancer, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:49, archived)
# it's spelt Sire.
You just can't get the peasants these days.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:50, archived)
# Hahaha! They can't take Clue
If they kept the dancing program but dropped clue I'd rampage
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:49, archived)
# ^ THIS
Radio 4 is the cornerstone of western civilisation, FACT.
(I helped save b3ta! Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:50, archived)
# hahaha :)
sing, Jeremy, SING!
(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:49, archived)
# Jeremy Hardy is a king among men
(I helped save b3ta! elephant rider property shark sighted!, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:50, archived)
# ?
acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/TGMTFH
(I helped save b3ta! Rocker_44 (-_-) shhhhh! Is asleep on, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:55, archived)
# The strange thing is that it's not an acronym
it's an abbreviation
(I helped save b3ta! Barbarossa is not my real name, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:58, archived)
# hurrah!
It's heartening to see that there are still folk who know the difference.
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 9:59, archived)
# it's just a shame
it's neither of you two :p
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:03, archived)
# I put my faith
in teh internets
(I helped save b3ta! Rocker_44 (-_-) shhhhh! Is asleep on, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:15, archived)
# didn't she mind?
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:18, archived)
# um
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:18, archived)
# an abbreviation is a shortening of individual words,
like Dr is to Doctor.
An acronym is a shortening of common or well known phrases containing multiple words, using the initial letters or syllables, as TGMTFH is to that gives me the fackin' horn.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:23, archived)
# No
an acronym is a word (hence the -onym suffix) formed from the intial letters of a phrase

for instance:
laser
scuba
NATO

TGMTFH is not a word, so it's not an acronym. You're correct that it's not really an abbreviation, though - it's an initialism.
(I helped save b3ta! RiffRaff lurking like a lurky thing, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:27, archived)
# just because you don't know
how to pronounce it doesn't mean it's not a word :p

And if it has to be a word, why is CEO accepted as an acronym, when nobody says it as a word, they say it as C-E-O? And for that matter, what qualifies something as a word? Is OPEC a word? I'm pretty sure it's not. Just because it's simple to pronounce something doesn't make it a word. I'm pretty sure SNOFFAGUMP isn't a word, but it's easy to say. Autochthon is a word, but just by reading it you probably wouldn't get the right pronunciation.

and also, onym means word OR name.
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:34, archived)
# The OED
states an abbreviation is a contraction of a word, or phrase.
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:44, archived)
# hint:
what do merkins call loudhailers?
(I helped save b3ta! Damocles wants no part of your debauchery, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:03, archived)
# bullhorns
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 5 Mar 2009, 10:43, archived)