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Magda
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 01:06 AM
Hello, How do you pronounce the acronyms below, as one word or with each letter separately?
UCLA = the
University of California, Los Angeles
MIT = the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DBU = the Display Business Unit (of IBM)
JTB = the Japan Travel Bureau Thank you.
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CalifJim
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 04:43 AM
Say each letter separately for each of them.
(Don't forget that such a series has the stress on the last letter.)
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Clive
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 06:01 AM
Hi,
Your examples are not acronyms. They are abbreviations.
An acronym is when the capital letters are pronounced as a word.
eg FBI is an abbreviation. We say each letter separately. eff bee eye
eg NATO is an acronym. We say naytow, not enn eh tee owe
Best wishes, Clive
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 06:32 AM
As I was looking at these abbreviations, I wondered how someone might know that UCLA isn't pronounced uck lah (I suppose that it would be an unfortunate moniker). Are there any universities that are abbreviated as acronymns? I can't think of any. Maybe the University of Pennsylvania is UPENN? I graduated from SPU and an occasional visitor mockingly referred to it as spew, but it was officially known as ess pea you.
-Andrew
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 02:20 PM
Penn is just called Penn.
SUNY (State Univeristy of New York) is said "Soo-nee."
I've also heard CUNY (City University of New York) is said "koo-nee" (rhymes with Rosemary or George Clooney).
In fact, SUNY Albany was SUNYA, and was sometimes called "soon-yia" (like the name "Tanya") although more often "soo-nee A."
Univerisy of Texas at El Paso is called "you-tep" (UTEP).
I'm sure there are others.
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Lil' Ruby Rose
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 02:24 PM
In the UK, some of the newer universities have gone down the acronym route - hence UWE (University of the West of England) is You-wee, and UWIC (University of Wales in Cardiff) is You-wick.
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Magda
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 03:27 PM
Clive wrote: | Hi,
Your examples are not acronyms. They are abbreviations.
An acronym is when the capital letters are pronounced as a word.
eg FBI is an abbreviation. We say each letter separately. eff bee eye
eg NATO is an acronym. We say naytow, not enn eh tee owe
Best wishes, Clive |
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Hi Clive, I've been taught that there are two kinds of acronyms: pronuncable as one word, e.g. NATO, OPEC, and these ones which have each letter pronounced separetely: the EU, the UN, etc. So, according to what I've been taught, they are all acronyms. Best regadrs, Magda
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Magda
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 03:49 PM
Thank you all for your posts. Could you give me some examples of company's acronyms like: MIT = the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
DBU = the Display Business Unit (of IBM)
JTB = the Japan Travel Bureau Have a good Tuesday ![Smile [:)]](/emoticons/emotion-1.gif) Magda
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Philip
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Tue, 23 Jan 07 04:05 PM
The17pointscale wrote: | As I was looking at these abbreviations, I wondered how someone might know that UCLA isn't pronounced uck lah (I suppose that it would be an unfortunate moniker). Are there any universities that are abbreviated as acronymns? I can't think of any. Maybe the University of Pennsylvania is UPENN? I graduated from SPU and an occasional visitor mockingly referred to it as spew, but it was officially known as ess pea you.
-Andrew
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Living in Seattle, you most likely know that the University of Washington (UW) is known as U-Dub.
(I live just 5 minutes away from "spew".)
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