Why not “NINAA”? Because then it would be an acronym.

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    10 months ago

    I’m pretty sure NPM is Node Package Manager.

    XNA, Microsoft’s C# based game dev framework, stood for XNA is Not Acronymed.

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      10 months ago

      Problem is, XNA is an acronym since it is correctly initialized and can be pronounced

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              10 months ago

              You could just say “Ex-En-Ay” without it ceasing to be an acronym.

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                  10 months ago

                  You’re right that it is an initialism, but you’ve got the inclusivity backwards. Initialisms are acronyms that are not pronounceable, but they are still acronyms whether or not they are pronounced. You did get me questioning my own memory, so I looked it up to double check:

                  From Wikipedia:

                  Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters, as in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).