> an initialism is an acronym that is pronounced as individual letters
EDIT: Guess it depends on the source; even my link above says an acronym is "a pronounceable word", but another link I had clicked on had the quote above. shrug
I was taught the other way around: an acronym is an initialism that can be pronounced as a word, all acronyms are initialisms but not all initialisms are acronyms.
Was just looking through the thread for this comment.
Because of this issue, I spent an obscene amount of time trying to diagnose a network problem that didn't exist when I upgraded to 1Gb. Hopefully others can avoid the same mistake.
