Is there some hidden pronounciation rule I’m not aware of? And why do we say F.B.I and not FBI or U.S.B and not USB ?

I know it seems a really silly question seeing the actual situation with the ICE eveywhere on the news… But this really bothers me on why people yell ICE when it’s actually the I.C.E :/.

    • VeryVito@lemmy.ml
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      16 days ago

      Me too. And I say them on the World Wide Web, which is quicker to say than the WWW.

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      16 days ago

      SQL, back in 2015, officially transitioned from being pronounced Sequel to being pronounced EssQueueEll.

      I still call it Sequel.

      Then again, I say U R L, but also pronounce URI as Yuri. I also say L O L instead of Loll and I R L instead of Earl.

      And then there’s mixed acronyms like Jaypeg and Empeg.