Re: ability to match / detect acronyms ?

In article <ehi1ih$d6l$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Josef Moellers wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
anno4000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jack <jack_posemsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:

Jack wrote:

Hi I was wondering if anyone had any code to detect / match / identify
acronyms (AAA, BD) , essentially these are non words..besides just
detecting the capitals of course.


Some acronyms are words,


All acronyms are words, by definition.

There are acronyms that
1. you couldn't pronounce, e.g. WWW,

WWW isn't an acronym.

2. you can pronounce (in some language) but they aren't "proper words"
in most languages, e.g. "USA"

USA isn't an acronym.

3. you can pronounce and they are "proper words" in at least some
language, e.g. "ARM: Advanced RISC machine, RISC: Reduced Instruction
Set Computer".

I guess Anno was referring to 3.

That's because 3 is the definition of acronym, as Anno noted.


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