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1 hour ago, Salvo Montalbano said:

I thought that too (had to make a word like Laser or Radar) but speaking to some English teachers and they say that that rule isn't something that's a thing these days, even if it used to be. TTFN.

Meh, it’s an abbreviation, and more specifically an initialization…all acronyms are abbreviations, not all abbreviations are acronyms.

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4 hours ago, TxRover said:

Meh, it’s an abbreviation, and more specifically an initialization…all acronyms are abbreviations, not all abbreviations are acronyms.

It's an example of Americans taking a word with a perfectly clear and unambiguous meaning and using it to describe something else. Subsequently their definition gradually becomes more and more acceptable to the point of the word's original meaning being lost.

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