• Baku@aussie.zone
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    1 month ago

    Is pronouncing LED like an acronym common? I’ve never heard it, and it would take me a while to work out what they’re on about if they’re talking about “lead”

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      1 month ago

      It doesn’t happen very often, but I’ve heard it used that way. It’s usually obvious from context, like I think I heard with “OLED vs. LED”. And as @brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee mentioned, it’s used a lot in languages other than English, in my experience in many slavic ones, for example.

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      1 month ago

      Haven’t ever heard it in English either, but it’s very common in Polish. In Polish LED can even become a proper adjective, e.g. “światło ledowe” (LED light), with the initialism even losing capitalisation