Assertion: acronym | /r/HasProperty | pronounced as word
Facets:
value: similarly
type: MANNER
value: as in nasa
type: LOCATION
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
value: mixture of the two
type: OTHER
value: as in fbi
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: An acronym is pronounced as a word:
text: Some style guides (e.g., the Guardian Style Guide) suggest that only the first letter of an acronym be capitalized if the acronym is pronounced as a word.
text: Similarly, acronyms are sometimes pronounced as words, as in NASA or UNESCO, sometimes as the individual letters, as in FBI or ATM, or a mixture of the two, as in JPEG or IUPAC.
text: The Hebrew language has a long history of formation of acronyms pronounced as words, stretching back many centuries.
text: In English, acronyms pronounced as words may be a 20th-century phenomenon.
text: Some acronyms are pronounced as words: FEMA for Federal Emergency Management Agency and NATO for North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
text: The combination of the first syllables or letters of component words within phrases or within names having more than one word is common and often produces acronyms, which are pronounced as words and which often cease to be considered abbreviations.