Re: An Acronym really? Maybe not...

Hopefully you don't mean for us to say that PHP isn't an acronym, it's more of an 'abbreviation' :) Come on, we could get technical about a lot of things in this world, but it's a lot easier to just keep it the way it is, even if slightly wrong, than confuse a lot of people :) --Andrew On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 16:33, Aaron L Burgemeister wrote: > Acronym: a word (as NATO, radar, or snafu) formed from the initial letter > or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound > term > > As noted above, NATO, radar and snafu are all pronouncable without saying > "N-A-T-O, R-A-D-A-R, S-N-A-F-U", etc. So is PHP really a recursive > acronym or is acronym a word everybody likes to use to describe an > abbreviation? > > Just curious. > > Aaron > -- Andrew Lindeman <alindeman@php.net>