definition help

[kengr]

Running a accessibility checker on my websites, I got "reminded" about the ABBR and ACRONYM tags. Which led me to this question:

Is BDSM an acronym or an abbreviation? And whichever it is, what should the "expanded" version of the term be?

Comments

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I think it's an abbreviation/initialism, as (if I recall correctly) an acronym has to be pronounceable as a word, not a set of letters.

My expansion of BDSM is "Bondage & Discipline, Dominance & Submission, and Sadism & Masochism".

[kengr]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I recall from the discussions that came up with it. I was just try to see how to word it, and I guess I overlkooked the obvious.