"acronym" redux

[Ben Zimmer]

My latest On Language reader response explores the often muddy usage
of "acronym." I cite Stephen Goranson's excellent find for "acronym"
from 1940 and also discuss the POTUS/SCOTUS telegraphic codes that
came up here recently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19FOB-onlanguage-t.html

--bgz

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