Imagine an "acronym" but instead of taking the first letter of each word, you took the entire first syllable of each word. I notice Japan, which incidentally has a syllabary, seems to create this sort of "acronym" fairly often.
Is there a word, like a linguistics word, for this type of syllabic "acronym"?
@whitequark @mcc both of those use the first letter of each word, but strictly speaking initialisms are read out as the letters (e.g. BGP, TCP) and acronyms are pronounced as a word (e.g. LARP, PIN), although in practice "acronym" gets used to mean both.
I think what mcc wants is more like "LoRa".
@whitequark Ooh, I've had *fierce* arguments on Wikipedia about that one.
In my opinion, it's not even a useful distinction, because the same word can be pronounced either way, e.g. "earl" vs "you are ell".
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