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 […]

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Tags:

orthography

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

12/11/2022, 18:42

Date published:

12/11/2022, 16:18