[AccessD] OT: asap?

[Stuart McLachlan]

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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