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Too Many Acronyms (i.imgur.com)
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[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

This is it. Initialism is synonymous to acronym and some people think they know better and strongly believe that these words have separate meanings.

That's underdog prescriptionism: When you are in the minority but still think you can determine how everyone else has to speak.