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From: Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NSGMLS ??
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:26:15 -0800
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In article <9916f7phfrmc4bai4lcdbvqe8sroo1u2h9@4ax.com>, Roedy Green
<see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 07:01:57 -0800 (PST), Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
> 
> >
> >What evidence do you have that it's an acronym?  If the founding link (that 
> >first link in the Google search) doesn't mention it, how would any other
> >source 
> >be authoritative?
>  
> Because it contains another acronym SGML  Standard Generalised Markup
> Language

To be accurate and pedantic, NSGML is not an "acronym", it is a
"initialism".

> It is not pronounceable. That is another clue.

If it were pronounceable, and you pronounced it as a word rather than
saying its letters, then it would be an acronym.

-- 
Jim Gibson