What I want to know is how Banksy got it back after it was noticed on display in 2005. Did the museum give it back or sell it or just throw it away? Something had to happen in order for Bansky to loan it back to the museum over a decade later.

Somehow I didn’t get the notification of your comment until now, but this rules. No one could possibly do that better than Jack Black.

*Some of Wikipedia’s editors.

If it were all of them, then the main wiki entry for acronym would not be allowed to stay the way it is. The main article I linked even speaks to the fact that some users of “initialism” think that it is separate from acronyms, so there is definitely still some significant debate. And to add to it, I looked up the words in the three most popular dictionaries:

• Oxford dictionary lists both initialisms and pronounceable abbreviations as two separate definitions of acronym, so according to them, all initialisms are a form of acronym, matching my inclusivity.

• Cambridge dictionary has acronym and initialism listed as unconnected entities with separate definitions that do not mention one another, so there is no confirmation of inclusivity either way there.

• Merriam-Webster dictionary defines initialism as any first letter abbreviation, acknowledges the debate, and claims that initialism is the older word, but it also says that pronounceable initialisms are commonly referred to as acronyms, so their definition more lines up better to your inclusivity rather than mine.

So it seems like possibly one or both of us is right or neither of us is. Isn’t the ambiguity of the English language fun?

You’re right that it is an initialism, but you’ve got the inclusivity backwards. Initialisms are acronyms that are not pronounceable, but they are still acronyms whether or not they are pronounced. You did get me questioning my own memory, so I looked it up to double check:

From Wikipedia:

Sometimes, initialism or alphabetism is used to refer to acronyms formed from the string of initials which are usually pronounced as individual letters, as in the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation).

You could just say “Ex-En-Ay” without it ceasing to be an acronym.

That’s what it originally meant, but it was retconned to be a recursive acronym similar to GNU - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

The moon is not to be trusted. It’s hiding a secret alien base on its dark side.

Wow, I remember hearing of Wolfman Jack many years ago as a DJ but don’t think I ever saw him before now. Thanks for that info.

I can offer to help out.

A B Q named Finger

Regardless, I’m glad they asked because I mistakenly read the tombstone as Robert Picardo to begin with, so their question clued me in that that was not what was written.

You’re all misunderstanding the etymology. It’s called a flashlight because it was named after its inventor, Barry Allen.

FYI not every bucees is the size of a department store, although most of the ones they’ve been building along interstates over the past 10-15 years definitely are.

There are plenty, especially near Lake Jackson where they are headquartered, that are the size of a regular gas station.

All my rexes live in Texas.

But would a jackdaw?

I also need to know what it’s from. It’s definitely giving horror comedy vibes.

This is the only community I’ve seen that has far surpassed the Reddit equivalent. There was never this much brilliance in r/risa.

Brb gotta figure out how to get this new odo/quark image out of my head. *unzips*

I find that starting with an apology makes people more receptive to corrections. I’m not really sorry for furthering knowledge, but the apology preface helps the knowledge go further.

But yeah, it is kind of crazy that it was still Shatner, but what’s most bizarre is that he let this common mistake persist for decades. I’m pretty sure I saw him talk about being the first interracial kiss at some convention or interview, and he never bothered to correct when they said it was in Star Trek. Most likely he simply forgot or never knew since it was a merely a clip of a play that was shown on Sullivan’s show.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this oft-repeated piece of Trek trivia is not true.

The first interracial kiss on American television was William Shatner and France Nuyen (of Asian decent) on the Ed Sullivan show, which happened in 1958, nearly 9 full years before William Shatner kissed Barbara Luna on Star Trek (1967).

And the absolute world’s first interracial tv kiss was in the UK during either the broadcast of the film The Seekers (1954) or during a BBC presentation of the play Othello in 1955. It’s either/or because the actual air date of The Seekers is unknown.

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