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Might not even have to change the acronym (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months 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 @[email protected] mentioned, it's used a lot in languages other than English, in my experience in many slavic ones, for example.