Talk:Initialism

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QANTAS seems like a bad example here because it is not an initialism but rather, like NATO, an acronym. No one pronounces QANTAS as Que Ay En Tee Ay Es, which, by definition, is the difference between an initialism and an acronym
 * viz. that the initialism is pronounced letter by letter and the acronym is pronounced as a single word unit.

M-W defines initialism as "an acronym formed from initial letters". The American Heritage dictionary makes the distinction you describe here (an acronym is a word and an initialism is pronounced letter by letter. -- Kimiko 07:28 18 May 2003 (UTC)

I'm removing the bit "The YMCA is now just a name and is no longer officially short for Young Men's Christian Association." - I can find no evidence that this has ever been true. Instead, I'm putting in KFC. - Jim Redmond 21:47, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)

KFC is a good example but the reason may be incorrect according to this link the reason was not because of fried but because of the state of KY...But than again at the same site is this link  and at the bottom it does mention name change for fried's sake. I don't know. nothing changed. help. Ht1848 03:54, 2004 Aug 18 (UTC)

Proposed move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the proposal was procedural close. --BDD (talk) 17:34, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Initialism → Acronym – That's where the term "initialism" is explained 219.79.91.54 (talk) 02:32, 13 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Speedy close if you want to discuss the retargetting of a redirect, you need to go to WP:RFD; as it is, why don't you just edit the redirect? -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 05:59, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The IP is right. Be bold and edit it yourself (add R to section) or take it to RfD. What you're proposing isn't actually a move. --BDD (talk) 17:34, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Ah true, sorry about that. ✅ 219.79.90.136 (talk) 13:21, 14 February 2013 (UTC)