alt Hacker NewsSome style guides distinguish between an acronym (Nasa, say the word as it's written) and initialism (ISS, say each letter)
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cubefox • today at 10:42 PM
What happens if there is disagreement about whether something is an acronym or initialism? For example, Europeans usually treat ESA as an acronym and US Americans as an initialism. I just searched the BBC and it is inconsistent, sometimes ESA, sometimes Esa. Perhaps representing their own uncertainty.
Yes, including the BBC’s: https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsstyleguide/all#:~:text=our%20style...