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Episode: 0146 – How To Say Acronyms, Dates, Numbers and Scores
Description: 0146 – How To Say Acronyms, Dates, Numbers and ScoresAcronymsAcronyms are sometimes spelt out and sometimes read as words. There is AEE union, the Association of Engineering Employee (“A-double-E”), but then again there is the teaching group “BECTU” (“BECK-too”) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is more commonly known as ‘AIDS’, the office of president is ‘POTUS’. DatesIn most parts of the world, the format is day > month > year, but in the US it’s month > day > year, so the 5th of March 2021 becomes March 5th 2021. (There’s often the omission of the “of” too...