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Otherwise known as an acronym.

To be perfectly pedantic, it’s an initialization. Acronyms are initializations that can be pronounced as words.

To add to the pedantry, I believe the correct word is initialism.

Therefore the pendatry was not "perfect" as it was claimed above.

One might even argue that it is impossible to be "perfectly pedantic".

Otherwise known as an oxymoron.