"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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I'll have to correct every acronym list I've worked with... wait, the odds
of
the military changing are pretty low.

What's your point? That the military also misuses the word "acronym"? Are
we supposed to be surprised about that?

Did you see the latest AOPA rag? It uses the term "initialism" for DME
and VOR etc. That's even worse then our disagreement over the term
acronym and abbreviation.

Why? "Initialism" is a perfectly valid word and does describe both "DME"
and "VOR". Perhaps when you go look up the word "word", you'll take the
moment to check out "initialism" as well.

Pete