The Argument for Obesity

Adam Sobel: I've had this dumb bugaboo for years about how people use the word acronym to describe initialisms. "Obese has come to be used pejoratively in the language," he says, but it's not a slur. He argues that dictionaries should describe the language as it is spoken, not prescribe how it should be spoken. 'I am fully within my right to advocate for the preservation of the original meaning of acronym'