fossilesque@mander.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 years agowhy is it always furries rulemander.xyzimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1841
arrow-up1841imagewhy is it always furries rulemander.xyzfossilesque@mander.xyz to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 years agoIt kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word. There is no such reason in this case.
minus-squareflamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoNo it isn’t, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoIts own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.
It kinda is. Unless you have a REALLY good reason not to, you pronounce the letters in the same way as you would if you were saying the whole word.
There is no such reason in this case.
No it isn’t, you pronounce an acronym as if it was its own word. The A and O in NATO are pronounced nothing like the ones in Atlantic and Organisation.
Its own word starting with the same letter variant as the first component word.