[Ads-l] Earliest True Acronym

[Martin Purdy]

Reminds me of a gag in a 1960s British radio show: "The walls were oak, and the floor wasn't too bad either." >
> It's an initialism, not an acronym. It's pronounced as the separate
> letters "O" and "K", not as a monosyllabic word like the tree "oak".
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
>
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 04:06:01PM +0000, Geoffrey Nathan wrote:
> > While I don't want to start a fight here, isn't the proposed etymology
> > of OK as being from the abbreviation of 'Old Kinderhook' an example
> > of an early pronounced acronym? It dates to the 1830's.
> >

  

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