Three-letter Initialisms
Language Log 2022-12-11
Summary:
I spent last week at the ASA conference in Nashville. The "ASA", as members all call it, is the Acoustical Society of America — but asa.org is "American Students' Assistance", while asa.com is the "American Sailing Association", and Wikipedia offers 75 other options for the ASA initialism. This is general problem. Another organization that I […]