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On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 06:32:59PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote:
> > An acronym is anything formed from (typically the initial) letters from
> > a phrase. =20
> =09
> ...that forms a word (either real or contrived), so BIOS and SCSI are
> acronyms, but IDE isn't (unless you pronounce it "eyed"), and neither is
> PCI, IBM, etc.

What're things like "IDE" referred to then?

FWIW, the DocBook definition says

  <acronym> - An *often* pronounceable word made from the initial (or
              selected) letters of a name or phrase

My emphasis.

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