British style on acronyms

[Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party]

The Guardian. A take on the paper’s reputation as being filled with spelling errors.

[jayjay]

@Capt.Ridley_s_Shooting_Party

The Guardian. A take on the paper’s reputation as being filled with spelling errors.

Ah. Okay. I knew it was referring to The Guardian, but I thought maybe “Grauniad” meant something in particular and I just hadn’t come across the word before.

[Little_Nemo]

It’s hard to say whether the British style would make this headline more or less confusing.

[Sunspace]

@Indistinguishable

It starts with an /r/ and rhymes with “Nazi”. I suppose you could say that’s just pronouncing the first syllable “as a word” and spelling out the last letter… but anyway, that’s how it’s done.

‘Rot-see’ rhymes with ‘Nazi’? Maybe it’s dialect differences, but I pronounce ‘Nazi’ to rhyme with ‘cat-see’, not ‘bought-see’.

[MarcusF]

As another reference point the the Oxford Guide to Style (from he OUP - all upper case, not pronounced as a word ) says:

Any all-capital proper-name acronym is, in some house styles, fashioned with a single initial capital if it exceeds four leters (Basic, Unesco, Unicef). Editors should avoid this rule, useful though it is, where the result runs against the common practice of a discipline (CARPE, SSHRCC, WYSIWYG), or where similar terms would be treated dissimilarly based on length alone.

Make of that what you will!

Originally posted by FRDE:
*A few days I cooked up a semi-explanation using ‘Nazi’ versus ‘NSDAP’, where pronunciation had diverged from spelling. *

Surely Nazi is an acronym just from *Nationalsozialist * - not from NSDAP the abbreviation for the political party?

[pulykamell]

@Sunspace

‘Rot-see’ rhymes with ‘Nazi’? Maybe it’s dialect differences, but I pronounce ‘Nazi’ to rhyme with ‘cat-see’, not ‘bought-see’.

Rhymes in my dialect. NAH-tsee, RAH-tsee.

[jayjay]

@pulykamell

Rhymes in my dialect. NAH-tsee, RAH-tsee.

“Nazi, Schmazi!”
says Werner von Braun…

-Tom Lehrer

[Huerta88]

@Sunspace

‘Rot-see’ rhymes with ‘Nazi’? Maybe it’s dialect differences, but I pronounce ‘Nazi’ to rhyme with ‘cat-see’, not ‘bought-see’.

I think of that (your way) as the older (or older, British) way of doing it. I am not sure which is closer to how a German would pronounce the first two syllables of “Nazional.” I kind of think it would be the latter.

[Mr.Slant]

Here in the US, 99% of speakers will pronounce Nazi as
“Not-zee”
I’ve met ONE man, Dr. Conklin at the old sociology department, who pronounced it “Nat-zee”.

[Mk_VII]

Here it would be nart-see. Scarcely anyone would follow Churchill’s “narrzee”.