original publish date: 30th March, 2010
decades on …
I’d like to say that I get no joy from pointing out to people who smugly use TLA as an autological acronym that it is not, in fact, an acronym, but I’d be lying.
I wish I were a better person.
And I recognise the hypocrisy, with grammatical judgment coming from someone who has (and likely still would) upset every English teacher who ever had the misfortune of marking his work.
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FTE #1: What is a BPQ? I said I wanted no acronyms in this presentation!
FTE #2: Technically, BPQ is an initialism, not an acronym.
Caption: Subtle distinctions are rarely appreciated.
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