This post is a little off topic and definitely not technical. There is something that bugs (software pun intended) me about how many people refer to Oracle's products, including Oracle employees. And this issue isn't related to just Oracle; I see this everywhere, both in tech and non-tech.
Particularly with the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management products with which I work, there are a lot of abbreviations: EPM, ARCS, FCC, etc. And elsewhere in Oracle there are terms like AI, OCI, ERP, and many, many others. You're probably thinking "Yes, yes, we know all these acronyms and use them all the time. So what?"
Well, here's the issue: most of these are NOT acronyms. Really. They are actually initialisms. The difference between an acronym and an initialism is how one pronounces the grouping of letters. If the letters are spelled out individually, like EPM, AI, OCI, etc, then it's an initialism. If the letters are pronounced all together as a word, like ARCS (pronounced as "arcs") then it's an acronym.
If you don't believe me, look it up: here's one link.
https://www.grammarly.com/commonly-confused-words/acronym-vs-initialism
Epilogue: out of curiosity, I checked a free version of ChatGPT to see if their AI had any self-awareness. Looks like not yet.
