Acronyms

[brielle.stark]

Hello! We have a question on coding the following very common acronyms that we see in the medical story:

CT

MRI

IV

ER

In the manual, it says:

8.6.3 Capitalization and Acronyms The MOR program depends on capitalization of the first letter to identify a word as a proper noun. Earlier versions of CHAT only allowed capital letters at the beginnings of words. This meant that transcribers had to write acronyms suc as FBI as F_B_I. However, that restriction has now been lifted and writing FBI is now correct. Other examples include MIT, CMU, USA, MTV, ET, and IU. More complicated acronyms may require underscores, as in C_three_PO and R_two_D_two. The recommended way of transcribing the common name for television is just tv. This form is not capitalized, since it is not a proper noun. Similarly, we can write cd, vcr, tv, and dvd. The underscore is the best mark for combinations that are not true compounds such as m_and_m-s for the M&M candy. Acronyms that are not actually spelled out when produced in conversation should be written as words. Thus UNESCO would be written as Unesco. The capitalization of the first letter is used to indicate the fact that it is is a proper noun. There must be no periods inside acronyms and titles, because these can be confused with utterance delimiters.

Are we thinking correctly that it should be:

i_v

m_r_i

c_t

e_r

Thank you!

[Leonid Spektor]

Hi,

I believe that you are correct about writing acronyms that you mention in your email this way:

i_v

m_r_i
c_t
e_r

If you want to see more acronyms spellings, then take a look at the file "n-abbrev.cut" usually located on desktop in "MOR/eng/lex/" directory.

Leonid.

On Jul 28, 2021, at 11:45, brielle.stark <briell...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello! We have a question on coding the following very common acronyms that we see in the medical story:

CT

MRI

IV

ER

In the manual, it says:

8.6.3 Capitalization and Acronyms The MOR program depends on capitalization of the first letter to identify a word as a proper noun. Earlier versions of CHAT only allowed capital letters at the beginnings of words. This meant that transcribers had to write acronyms such as FBI as F_B_I. However, that restriction has now been lifted and writing FBI is now correct. Other examples include MIT, CMU, USA, MTV, ET, and IU. More complicated acronyms may require underscores, as in C_three_PO and R_two_D_two. The recommended way of transcribing the common name for television is just tv. This form is not capitalized, since it is not a proper noun. Similarly, we can write cd, vcr, tv, and dvd. The underscore is the best mark for combinations that are not true compounds such as m_and_m-s for the M&M candy. Acronyms that are not actually spelled out when produced in conversation should be written as words. Thus UNESCO would be written as Unesco. The capitalization of the first letter is used to indicate the fact that it is is a proper noun. There must be no periods inside acronyms and titles, because these can be confused with utterance delimiters.

Are we thinking correctly that it should be:

i_v

m_r_i

c_t

e_r

Thank you!

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[brielle.stark]

Thanks!