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NASCAR is one of the few acronyms that actually makes sense when you sound it out, amirite?
by Anonymous11 years ago
You know.... It never even crossed my mind that it was an acronym for something. What does it mean??
by Anonymous11 years ago
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing
by Anonymous11 years ago
Ooooh! Yeah, it does make more sense. I guess SCUBA would be one that makes sense too.
by Anonymous11 years ago
I get the CAR, but what would the NAS mean in your sense? "Nasty"?
by Anonymous11 years ago
NASCAR ins't an acronym. An acronym must be said letter by letter not formed into a word.
by Anonymous11 years ago
As if people don't pronounce ASAP as "ay-sap." or PETA as "pee-tuh".
by Anonymous11 years ago
I thought an acronym is when the letters can be pronounced as if they were words themselves, and that initialisms were the ones that can't be pronounced as a word.
Correct me if I'm wrong though...
by Anonymous11 years ago
That's an abbreviation. The 'nym' in acronym means it's also a word on it's word. Or else the Arcane Capturing Rod of Never Yielding Mystery wouldn't be funny.
Also abbreviation is unrelated to acroynms, they are just when a word is shortened to make it easier, for example etc is an abbreviation
by Anonymous11 years ago
Well all acronyms/initialisms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms/initialisms...? Well that's what I understood. So in a way abbreviations are related to acronyms.
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