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Re: when acronyms mean nothing

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From: Sam Buchanan
Date: Jun 27, 2002 3:44PM


Timothy J. Luoma wrote:

> So how does one mark up an acronym that doesn't have any meaning?

Seems to me that if it doesn't have a meaning, it's not an acronym. So
don't mark it up as one. If you want to mark it up somehow, you could do
something like this:

<span style="speak:spell-out">CNBC</span>

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