Pedants' Paradise

[Serial_Apologist]

That would depend on the pronunciation of the questioner on the show, no? I'm guessing that the clue is in the 'swam' .

Or, in my case, in "the drink"!!!

[kernelbogey]

Or, in my case, in "the drink"!!!

Cf the Tommy Beecham story: 'In came Sargent, simply reeking of Horlicks....'

[Pulcinella]

Welcome to your new National Trust car sticker.



I'm quite happy with 'Welcome to Beningbrough Hall', or, in teamsaint's neck of the woods, 'Welcome to Mottisfont', but Welcome to a car sticker?

[vinteuil]

Welcome to your new National Trust car sticker.



I'm quite happy with 'Welcome to Beningbrough Hall', or, in teamsaint's neck of the woods 'Welcome to Mottisfont', but Welcome to a car sticker?

... you're welcome to it!

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[Pulcinella]

... you're welcome to it!

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I think that that's the sort of message that someone changed a 'Welcome to Northamptonshire' road sign to.


I meant to say that that was the message included in the 2021 NT membership pack that arrived this morning.

[french frank]

Guardian today: "Other Republicans stood up to Trump as he was pedaling unfounded claims about voter fraud after Joe Biden won the presidential election but before he took office."

Yep, on yer bike T****.

[Nick Armstrong]

Do try and keep up at the back there!

[Pulcinella]

Do try and keep up at the back there!

In defence of cloughie, he wasn't to know that the S in each case is a pluralisation s, not part of the acronym, so ideally jlw would have written GROCs and GAOCs, which might have helped his search (though not in the case of GAOC!).
And indeed the plural (recordings) seems already to have been taken care of.

Wretched things, acronyms!


GROC
Acronym Definition
GROC Great Recordings of the Century
GROC Global Rating of Change (health scale)
GROC Group Risk Oversight Committee
GROC Gang/Rock County Task Force (Wisconsin)
GROC Gross Rent Occupancy Cost
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GAOC
Acronym Definition
GAOC Grupo Astronomico Omega Centauro (Galician: Omega Centauri Astronomical Group)
GAOC Golden Arrow Overseas Consulting (China)
GAOC GrandAm Owners Club
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[Nick Armstrong]

Wretched things, acronyms!

I have a history of almost complete inability to retain acronyms!

At work I used to delight in holding up proceedings whenever anyone used one (“Remind me...?”)

[Petrushka]

Wretched things, acronyms!

Yes, but GROC and GAOC are not too difficult to work out in context, surely? Stops the brain going into a lockdown sleep anyway.

[jayne lee wilson]

In defence of cloughie, he wasn't to know that the S in each case is a pluralisation s, not part of the acronym, so ideally jlw would have written GROCs and GAOCs, which might have helped his search (though not in the case of GAOC!).
And indeed the plural (recordings) seems already to have been taken care of.

Wretched things, acronyms!


GROC
Acronym Definition
GROC Great Recordings of the Century
GROC Global Rating of Change (health scale)
GROC Group Risk Oversight Committee
GROC Gang/Rock County Task Force (Wisconsin)
GROC Gross Rent Occupancy Cost
Copyright 1988-2018 AcronymFinder.com, All rights reserved.

GAOC
Acronym Definition
GAOC Grupo Astronomico Omega Centauro (Galician: Omega Centauri Astronomical Group)
GAOC Golden Arrow Overseas Consulting (China)
GAOC GrandAm Owners Club
Copyright 1988-2018 AcronymFinder.com, All rights reserved.

Phew!
How very diligently researched and exhaustively copied....thankyou for your patient clarification.

I was of course referencing these in a Gramophone context, where such acronyms became a familiar way of keeping up as the re- and re-re-reissues gathered pace through the 21st Century; readers became familiar with acronyms through such unmissable monthly features as Rob Cowan's Replay section, specialising in historical and classic-stereo-era tapings....

I was about to say, Petrushka would know, but - here he is!

I do love a good acronym. Where would we all be without LGBT(Q)(I)........LOL.....OMG.....
A favourite of mine is DIET (Do I Eat Today.....)...FF in a GP context (Frequent Flyer (i.e. recurrent visitor)... probably rather less of a problem right now...)
HIPP seems essential round here ...........

[vinteuil]

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AAAAAITTR

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[LeMartinPecheur]

I do love a good acronym. Where would we all be without LGBT(Q)(I)

If this is an acronym, could you please tell us how to pronounce it? Not too sure about OMG either.

OK, transfer me to Pedant's Paradise if you like, but just give me time to get me coat...

The difference between an abbreviation and an acronym is well shown by the the World Health Organisation, 'Doubleyou Aitch Owe' yes, 'Who' never.

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, but GROC and GAOC are not too difficult to work out in context, surely? Stops the brain going into a lockdown sleep anyway.

GROC I knew but was with Cloughers on GAOC !

[jayne lee wilson]

If this is an acronym, could you please tell us how to pronounce it? Not too sure about OMG either.

OK, transfer me to Pedant's Paradise if you like, but just give me time to get me coat...

The difference between an abbreviation and an acronym is well shown by the the World Health Organisation, 'Doubleyou Aitch Owe' yes, 'Who' never.

No mystery.....
Just like WHO....no pronunciation as such, just one capital letter after another.....
There are many kinds of abbreviation which are not acronyms of course, like Dr or Prof etc....so the terminological application here is very flexible...

Initialism is another option if you so choose....

One could say that acronyms tend to contain vowels whilst initialisms might or might not, but that is the kind of linguistic distinction that soon dissolves away, evolving through continuous usage....and "abbreviation" becomes more of an umbrella term, really.