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Originally Posted By: The PookOriginally Posted By: JackieHey, a new acronym (just what we needed...): GGWH.
Let me be the first of this bunch of super-pedants to point out that strictly speaking that is an initialism rather than an acronym.![]()
im sure youre right although it looks like a perfectly respectable welsh word and looks like it would probably be at home as a central consonant cluster in Irish, where it would no doubt be pronounced "mary". i googled initialism and found a recent discussion at blog called languagehat.
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