Comment on Why do people pronounce ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) like it's a word?
N0x0n@lemmy.ml 7 hours agoICE=Immigration and Customs Enforcement
FBI=Federal Bureau of Investigation
USB=Universal Serial Bus
None of those are words :/ but a contraction of 3 words.
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?
Yeah but modem is different. It’s a contraction of 2 words (modulation/demodulation) that’s not the same as an acronym.
474D@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Perhaps you should read twice before you try to correct someone.