My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.

Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?

  • p0rkch0pexpress@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    But not all acronyms are pronounced as a word. You don’t say Fibby for FBI. This is English much like Vietnam there are no rules here.

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      It’s only an acronym if it can be pronounced. If it can’t, like FBI, then it’s just an initialism.