Ah, how pointless is misguided pedantry! O anti-blog ranter, let your brilliance shine down on us! Explain to us again how 'URL' is an acronym, not a word! Yes, that's right -- please, please, ignore the fact that an acronym is precisely an abbreviation which is pronounced as a word (SCUBA and LASER are acronyms; FBI and CIA are not). We will be the better for it.
(P.S. On reading that, it would be easy to believe that my remarks were addressed to you, dear i149, rather than the author of the piece to which you link. They were not.)
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Ah, how pointless is misguided pedantry! O anti-blog ranter, let your brilliance shine down on us! Explain to us again how 'URL' is an acronym, not a word! Yes, that's right -- please, please, ignore the fact that an acronym is precisely an abbreviation which is pronounced as a word (SCUBA and LASER are acronyms; FBI and CIA are not). We will be the better for it.
(P.S. On reading that, it would be easy to believe that my remarks were addressed to you, dear i149, rather than the author of the piece to which you link. They were not.)
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