Comment on YSK When you hover over a piece of the phonetic notation on (English) Wikipedia, it shows you an example for its pronunciation

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GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Well that makes no sense. If your view is that “it’s an acronym or it isn’t” then you pronounce it as individual letters or as a word. But the reality of language is much messier than arbitrary rules people come up with. If people pronounce it as if it’s a word in its own right, that means that’s how it works. Just as with laws of physics, if what we observe contradicts the rule, the rule was wrong.

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