Poly-Chlorinated Biphenyls? What other acronym would they use?
Or is it just that some might find it contentious with Printed Circuit Board?
Three letter acronyms are always suffering from name space collisions, in mixed or broad context.
It’s really a symptom of using three letter acronyms at all, rather than any one acronym being reasonably preferable to another under any circumstances. When you only have a symbolic trigram combining any of 26 letters, reuse is not just inevitable but frequent.
Or is it just that some might find it contentious with Printed Circuit Board?
Three letter acronyms are always suffering from name space collisions, in mixed or broad context.
It’s really a symptom of using three letter acronyms at all, rather than any one acronym being reasonably preferable to another under any circumstances. When you only have a symbolic trigram combining any of 26 letters, reuse is not just inevitable but frequent.