| Not that it detracts from the quiz, but most of these are not actually acronyms, as the word was traditionally defined. An acronym is pronounced as if the abbreviated letters form their own word - like "SCUBA" or "SWAT" or "NIMBY". If you say each letter individually - like "SNL" or "GMT" or "DNA" - it's not an acronym. It's just an abbreviation, sometimes referred to as an initialism. Since "acronym" is so frequently misused, some modern dictionaries have shifted their definitions to reflect current usage and offer any abbreviation formed from initial letters as an alternative definition, just as they now include the pronunciation "NOO-kyoo-ler" for "nuclear." |
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