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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.

The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”

Etc.

[–] asyncrosaurus 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

CIA is an initialism, not an acronym, since you pronounce each letter individually.

What you sir are suggesting is a complete erasure of initialisms, and I will not stand for it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It wasn’t a real suggestion. A bit of hyperbole and exaggeration due to the pointless debate over jig/gif. We have a long precedent of pronouncing acronyms as initialisms and not enunciating the letters as they were pronounced in their original word. While I think the original argument over jif/gif was for fun, some can’t let it go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dept of Transportation would be "dot", no?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

People tend to pronounce “of” more like “uhv” in shove or glove, not like stove or clove. So I went with “duht” for pronunciation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I would suggest the tax guys be pronounced ire's. The raise my ire anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Lol, absolutely.