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Magda Posted 19 years ago
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Pronunciation of acronyms

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00How do you pronounce the acronyms below, as one word or with each letter separately?02br
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00UCLA = the University of California, Los Angeles 02br
00 MIT = the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 02br
00 DBU = the Display Business Unit (of IBM) 02br
00 JTB = the Japan Travel Bureau 02br
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00Thank you.0-
  

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0 Say each letter separately for each of them.02br
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0Hi,02br
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00Your examples are not acronyms. They are abbreviations.02br
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00An acronym is when the capital letters are pronounced as a word.02br
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00eg FBI is an abbreviation. We say each letter separately. 01i00eff bee eye02i02br
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00eg NATO is an acronym. We say 01i00nay
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0 As I was looking at these abbreviations, I wondered how someone might know that UCLA isn't pronounced 01i00uck lah 02i00(I suppose that it would be an unfortunate moniker). Are there any universities that are abbreviated as acronymns? I can't think of any. Maybe the University of Pennsylvania is UPENN? I graduated from SPU and an occasional visitor mockingly referred to
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0Penn is just called Penn.02br
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00SUNY (State Univeristy of New York) is said "Soo-nee." 02br
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00I've also heard CUNY (City University of New York) is said "koo-nee" (rhymes with Rosemary or George Clooney).02br
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00In fact, SUNY Albany was SUNYA, and was sometimes called "soon-yia" (like the name "Tanya") although more often
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0 In the UK, some of the newer universities have gone down the acronym route - hence UWE (University of the West of England) is You-wee, and UWIC (University of Wales in Cardiff) is You-wick. 0-
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01cite10Clive12cite10Hi,12br
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10Your examples are not acronyms. They are abbreviations.12br
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10An acronym is when the capital letters are pronounced as a word.12br
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10eg FBI is an abbreviation. We say each letter separately. 11i10eff bee eye12i1
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0 Thank you all for your posts.02br
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00Could you give me some examples of company's acronyms like:02br
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00MIT = 01b00the02b00 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 02br
00 DBU = 01b00the02b00 Display Business Unit (of IBM) 02br
00 JTB = 01b00the02b00 Jap
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01cite10The17pointscale12cite10As I was looking at these abbreviations, I wondered how someone might know that UCLA isn't pronounced 11i10uck lah 12i10(I suppose that it would be an unfortunate moniker). Are there any universities that are abbreviated as acronymns? I can't think of any. Maybe the University of Penn
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0 Yeah, but I'd say that U-Dub is an abbreviated form of the abbreviation UW (01i00you double-you). 02i00I don't really think that it's an acronymn....02br
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00(crazy! my girlfriend works at spew)02br
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could you guys tell me how to pronouce AWS (American Welding Society) ? i do think it should be " ai dublju s" rathter than "aus" . thanks in advance.
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