Let's all learn what an acronym is

Capodecina
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Or, as I was going to write, let's all learn what a sodding acronym is.

I see people get this wrong time and time again.

An acronym is an abbreviation, the letters of which stand for other words.

Examples:

Laser - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

Radar - Radio Detection and Ranging

Sonar - Sound Navigation and Ranging

RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disks

Acronyms are all words which you can speak phonetically and which fit into a sentence like, "oh look, a blue laser" or "gosh, I do find RAID arrays fascinating."

Things like PLC, HTML, MP are not acronyms, they are just abbreviations. You could not speak them aloud as full words: you have to spell out their individual letters.

Now stop getting it wrong.
 
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