R: Re: [xml-dev] Is "XML" an abbreviation or an acronym?

["fmeschini@tin.it" <fmeschini@tin.it>]

>The XML specification, http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/ 
starts with,
>Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes 
...
>So the spec says, it's an abbreviation ...

Probably because 
'acronymied' is a little bit of a cacophony, and to write 'abbreviated 
through the acronym' was too complex of a sentence.

Technically XML is 
an acronym, as GNU, SQL, FAT, BBC or TARDIS are. Probably we should 
discuss whehter an 'acronym' is a subtype of the more general 
'abbreviation' type which is at the same time disjointed from the 
'contraction' subtype (e.g. Dr. for Doctor).

Fede