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Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

• From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:02:51 +1000

Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>> So I think it is futile to discern acronymicity from merely looking 
>> at the letters: it is how they get read that is the determining 
>> factor. So RADAR and LASER are definitely acronyms because we 
>> conventionally read them aloud as words perfectly easily.
> How'bout SOAP in v1.2?  It is a pronounceable acronym in v1.1 but has 
> been explicitly declared as a non-acronym in v1.2  (Ref:   
> http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/   under Section 1. Introduction's 
> "Note").
>
SOAP passes the "nym" test (a readable word-oid) but not the "acro" test 
(initial letters/sounds from some longer phrase).
 
Cheers
Rick

• References:
  • Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
    • From: "Crawford, Mark" <mark.crawford@s...>
  • Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
    • From: Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@s...>
  • RE: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
    • From: "Crawford, Mark" <mark.crawford@s...>
  • Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
    • From: Rick Jelliffe <rjelliffe@a...>
  • Re: Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?
    • From: Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@s...>