Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation."
MG is *not* a word, therefore it is *not* an acronym. Neither are those other things that you put forth. Just because *many* people are wrong in making those assumptions, doesn't make you any more right.
Away with thee, troll. I banish thee to the bridge under which thou were sired.
"Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.""
I don't know what language dictionary your using as a resource, but it's obviously not one of the English language. The Webster dictionary (second in definitivity only to the Oxford English Dictionary) defines the word "acronym" as:
a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters
Emphasis on the second definition. I'm right, end of discussion.
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Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation."
MG is *not* a word, therefore it is *not* an acronym. Neither are those other things that you put forth. Just because *many* people are wrong in making those assumptions, doesn't make you any more right.
Away with thee, troll. I banish thee to the bridge under which thou were sired.
"Eh... looking in the *dictionary* (you know... official definitions of words) rather than assuming (which is what you're doing), I see that an acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as Wac from Women's Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or loran from long-range navigation.""
I don't know what language dictionary your using as a resource, but it's obviously not one of the English language. The Webster dictionary (second in definitivity only to the Oxford English Dictionary) defines the word "acronym" as:
a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters
Emphasis on the second definition. I'm right, end of discussion.