Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> Rick Jelliffe wrote:
>> So I think it is futile to discern acronymicity from merely looking
>> at the letters: it is how they get read that is the determining
>> factor. So RADAR and LASER are definitely acronyms because we
>> conventionally read them aloud as words perfectly easily.
> How'bout SOAP in v1.2? It is a pronounceable acronym in v1.1 but has
> been explicitly declared as a non-acronym in v1.2 (Ref:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/ under Section 1. Introduction's
> "Note").
>
SOAP passes the "nym" test (a readable word-oid) but not the "acro" test
(initial letters/sounds from some longer phrase).
Cheers
Rick
