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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We should just go ahead and pronounce all acronyms the way their unabbreviated forms’ first syllable letters are said. Just ignore we treat individual letters differently than the words they came from.

The CIA should sound like “see ya” Department of Transportation “Duht” Internal Revenue Service “ears”

Etc.

[–] overcast5348@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dept of Transportation would be "dot", no?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

People tend to pronounce “of” more like “uhv” in shove or glove, not like stove or clove. So I went with “duht” for pronunciation.