Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word?
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
FBI and USB aren’t words, ICE is.
POTUS isn’t actually a word, but it’s often pronounced that way.
The Depot of Transportation is often reduced to DOT.
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 9 hours ago
ICE=Immigration and Customs Enforcement
FBI=Federal Bureau of Investigation
USB=Universal Serial Bus
None of those are words :/ but a contraction of 3 words.
474D@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Perhaps you should read twice before you try to correct someone.
adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Did you know that acronyms are types of words?
And many modern words are elisions and concatenations of words we no longer use.
Where do you stand on OK, where it’s actually a word, or laser and modem which are nouns with specific meanings even though they were derived originally?
What about cole instead od coca cola, cocaine and compressed coal?
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Yeah but modem is different. It’s a contraction of 2 words (modulation/demodulation) that’s not the same as an acronym.