Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Veep

 
Are there other acronyms that can be pronounced that way?
I mean, veep instead of vee-pee, for V.P. (Vice President).

 I mean, veep instead of vee-pee, for V.P. (Vice President).
 
La cosa piu' simile a questo che mi viene in mente e' 
"beemer" invece che BMW.
 
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 I mean, veep instead of vee-pee, for V.P. (Vice President).
 
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 I mean, veep instead of vee-pee, for V.P. (Vice President).
 
VP isn't actually an acronym, it's an initialism, so its pronunciation 
as 'veep' is just a popular colloquialism.
 
It brings to mind
POTUS President of the United States
FLOTUS First Lady of ... etc
and
SCOTUS Supreme Court of ... etc
but these 'neologisms' are not recognized by everyone as words.
 
As for true acronyms, some examples are
RAM random access memory
BART Bay Area Rapid Transit
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SCUBA Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus, although this one 
is so common these days that it's considered a word in itself and 
written in lower case, same as
RADAR RAdio Detection And Ranging, now written as 'radar'
ASAP As Soon As Possible
NASDAQ National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations 
( the 's' is pronounced voiced, like 'z')
AWOL Absent Without Official Leave
LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, written 
in lower case, as it is now a word in its own right
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PIN Personal Identification Number. All too often people say 'PIN 
number,' which is reduplicative, as the 'N' stands for 'number.'
(Same with 'ATM machine,' where the 'M' means 'machine,' although this 
one isn't a spoken acronym.)
WASP White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
 
I hesitate to include
LOL Laughing Out Loud, because I don't want to encourage anyone to use 
it. (ROFL!) (Which some people pronounce as 'roffle'.)
 
There are likely lots more, too many to name.
-- 
JoeWolfDee
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find�no common denominator, 
but among those�whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.��--WH 
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 There are likely lots more, too many to name.
 
 
Thanks, JWD!  :D
 

 Are there any others like that?
 
I think someone else pointed out BEEMER for BMW, but whoever thought up 
that one took a lot of license.
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 I mean, veep instead of vee-pee, for V.P. (Vice President).
 
 
Jeep (General Purpose)
 
 
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 SCOTUS Supreme Court of ... etc
 
SCROTUS Supreme Court Ruling Over The United States?
 
-- 
Et interrogabant eum turbae dicentes: ï¿½Quid ergo faciemus?ï¿½.
Respondens autem dicebat illis: ï¿½Qui habet duas tunicas,
det non habenti; et, qui habet escas, similiter faciatï¿½.
(Ev. sec. Lucam 3,10-11)

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Ecco! :)
 
Another clipped initialism: "Beeb" (or "Auntie Beeb"), a nickname for BBC.
BTW, in  Italy we say "Mamma RAI".

 SCROTUS Supreme Court Ruling Over The United States?
 
ROtFL!
(They do have balls sometimes. Some of their decisions...)
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Joe Wolf Dee 18:41, luned� 18 agosto 2014:
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SNAFU
:-)
 
 
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 :-)
 
Ah yes, that one. Also now mostly written in lower case.
 
In both versions, the "Rated G" version:
Situation normal: all fouled up
and the X-Rated version:
Situation normal: all f*cked up.
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