[AccessD] OT: asap?

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So the answer was “At once orders” :-o
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:10 AM Ryan W <wrwehler at gmail.com> wrote:

> It’s actually an initialism if each letter is sounded separately such as
> CPU and A.S.A.P (and not aye-sap)
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Feb 20, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
> >
> > I beg to differ.  I generally pronounce it as "aye-sap", not "aye ess
> aye pee".
> >
> > If it pronounced as a word it is an acronym, regardless of whether or
> not it appears in a
> > dictionary.  It is only an abbreviation if each letter is sounded
> separately.
> >
> >> On 20 Feb 2018 at 11:02, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> >>
> >> Francisco,
> >>
> >> Just a minor comment. ASAP is not an acronym but rather an
> >> abbreviation. The difference is that an acronym forms a word in
> >> itself, for example SPECTRE (from the James Bond books and movies)
> >> while FBI is not a word and is therefore an abbreviation. ASAP, while
> >> pronouncable, is not a word.
> >>
> >> Arthur the pedant
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