Acronyms

[brielle.stark]

Thanks! 

On Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 12:05:46 PM UTC-4 Leonid Spektor wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe that you are correct about writing acronyms that you mention in 
> your email this way:
>
> i_v
> m_r_i
> c_t
> e_r
>
> If you want to see more acronyms spellings, then take a look at the file 
> "n-abbrev.cut" usually located on desktop in "MOR/eng/lex/" directory.
>
>
> Leonid. 
>
> On Jul 28, 2021, at 11:45, brielle.stark <briell... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello! We have a question on coding the following very common acronyms 
> that we see in the medical story:
>
> CT
> MRI
> IV
> ER
>
> In the manual, it says:
>
> 8.6.3 Capitalization and Acronyms The MOR program depends on 
> capitalization of the first letter to identify a word as a proper noun. 
> Earlier versions of CHAT only allowed capital letters at the beginnings of 
> words. This meant that transcribers had to write acronyms such as FBI as 
> F_B_I. However, that restriction has now been lifted and writing FBI is now 
> correct. Other examples include MIT, CMU, USA, MTV, ET, and IU. More 
> complicated acronyms may require underscores, as in C_three_PO and 
> R_two_D_two. The recommended way of transcribing the common name for 
> television is just tv. This form is not capitalized, since it is not a 
> proper noun. Similarly, we can write cd, vcr, tv, and dvd. The underscore 
> is the best mark for combinations that are not true compounds such as 
> m_and_m-s for the M&M candy. Acronyms that are not actually spelled out 
> when produced in conversation should be written as words. Thus UNESCO would 
> be written as Unesco. The capitalization of the first letter is used to 
> indicate the fact that it is is a proper noun. There must be no periods 
> inside acronyms and titles, because these can be confused with utterance 
> delimiters.
>
>
> Are we thinking correctly that it should be:
>
> i_v
> m_r_i
> c_t
> e_r
>
>
>
> Thank you!
>
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