Initialisms
So this is interesting and something that everyone should learn but will probably forget:
I'm sure we are all familiar with acronyms: words that when each letter is broken down they each stand for something, like TARDIS, scuba, and radar.
But what I bet you didn't know is that terms compiled of letters standing for something but not sounded out, which you probably thought were acronyms, like FBI, HTML, and DFTBA (and BZP for that matter), are correctly called initialisms.*
Does it matter? No. Does it really matter? Yes. Why look foolish when you can look smart? It just takes some effort to remember the proper terms.**
The more you know.
-CF
*Parts of these paragraphs almost completely copied from wikipedia.
(**And, depending on who you are, MOC falls into either of those categories.***)
(***Acronym for me: must faster to say.)
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