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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, CliveHi...

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

According to Longman's Pronunciation Dictionary by J. C. Wells, the name Lianne (with two 'n') is pronounced something like /li'aen/ (the /i/ sound is a short /i/ so it is not 'Lee', and what I wrote as /ae/ would be the vowel sound for 'a' in 'cat'. There is a word which is written as the name...