"Jerry Avins" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley wrote:
>>
>> "Jerry Avins" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>>> Stuart Welwood wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> An initialism is an acronym! ...
>>>
>>>
>>> but not every acronym is an initialism. Consider "multiply and
>>> accumulate" --> MAC
>>
>>
>> But your example *IS* both an acronym and an initialism
>> by the definition Mr. Welwood quoted. Other more complete
>> discussions make the distinction of pronouncability.
>
> Multiply And aCcumulate? Multiply and ACcumulate? Neither uses all
> initials.


Bzzzzt! I wasn't paying attention. Yes, indeed.
An example of an acronym that is not an initialism.