On Twitter, @laureneoneal wonders why the term ob-gyn is pronounced by sounding out all the letters, as if it’s an initialism. This is part of a complete episode.
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On Twitter, Lauren O’Neill writes,
I love how, for some inexplicable reason, OBGYN is pronounced OBGYN as if it were an acronym.
Yes, I just made my annual appointment with the obtaining babies and groping your nethers doctor.
I never thought about that.
It’s not an acronym, right?
It’s not an acronym.
It’s not an initialism.
No.
Right, yeah.
The initialism where you say just the letters and an acronym where you pronounce it as a word.
Yeah, O-P-G-Y-N.
That’s funny.
It’s sort for obstetrics and gynecology, right?
Right.
