It will never happen on my watch

MADAM – The pedants revolt! In ATG No 2463, writing about the Ministry Of Defence’s wristwatches, Roland Arkell states that the letters WWW on the back of their cases form an acronym; they do not.

They do not make up a word, they are said separately, and as such are an initialism. As correspond…

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