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minus-squareAwesomeLowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months ago A backronym is an acronym formed from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase.
minus-squareZoopZeZoop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoAlso, we’d have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.
Also, we’d have to hear them pronounce it to know if it was an acronym or an initialism, if my understanding is correct.