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AI is an initialism since you don't pronounce AI. NASA would be an acronym because you pronounce the word.
this is one of those facts i have to struggle to keep to myself to avoid coming off as an insufferable nerd
Boom, roasted
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Now this is the kind of pedantry I'm here for
Wait you do not pronounce AI like a Sopranos character that just found an eye ball on the sidewalk?
Don't tell me what to do.
Whatever you do, don't follow this advice.
I always forget this, thanks
AI is pronounced "ay-eye"
Are ya ready kids!
Do SQL next!
Correct:
Incorrect:
The one that people really screw up? PostgreSQL.
Squirrel.
It's interesting that Wikipedia says it's pronounced " S-Q-L" but was historically pronounced "sequel."
Also interesting, MySQL says on their site:
Lastly, for those curious, PostgreSQL says on their site:
Post Graduate Squirrel
My people often pronounce nginx as "n-ginsk" not "engine x".
sad pikachu
What about squill?
Squeal?
You're one of those? Its sequel and GIF has a hard g.
Soft G folk are just objectively wrong. Not only is Jif a peanut butter, it's a damn file extension: https://fileinfo.com/extension/jif
I don't care how inconsequential it is, I will die on this hill.
This may be a bit prescriptivist. Most people use the word acronym for all of them.
Is initialism a type of acronym? Or do they have an umbrella term? Surely, they are the same thing, but if initialism has easily string-able sounds it's an acronym (ex. CPU vs. RAM). And some are even both depending on person saying it, like LED.
Other way around.
An acronym is a type of initialism, which is itself a type of abbreviation.
So acronyms are initialisms where you pronounce the letters like a word (e.g., RAM), initialisms are abbreviations made by taking the initial letters of multiple words and concatenating them regardless of how it's spoken (e.g. FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation), and an abbreviation is any shortening of a word or phrase into something shorter (e.g., "abbrev." for abbreviation or "US" for United States).
It doesn't happen very often, but I've heard it used that way. It's usually obvious from context, like I think I heard with "OLED vs. LED". And as @brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee mentioned, it's used a lot in languages other than English, in my experience in many slavic ones, for example.
|ay| checkmate atheists.