[AccessD] OT: asap?

[Gary Kjos]

Nobody wins!  "As soon as possible" is as close as it gets I guess.
But it wouldn't win on Jeopardy

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:32 PM,  <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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)
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> > 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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