Acronymizing a phrase containing an acronym

[Euripides]

Suppose there's a website called "BSD Lounge & Cafe", where BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, the operating system. I want to make an acronym from that website's name. Is it BSDL&C or BL&C?

 

[Tdol]

Given that's is normally know as BSD, I would keep that, but it does produce a rather long acronym. Could you put a dash after BSD?

 

[chester_100]

Of course that's not a acronym; that an abbreviation or initialism.

 

[Tdol]

The acronym/initialism distinction is very rarely used in BrE; it was only when I came into daily contact on the web with AmE speakers that I came across it. ;-)

 

[Barb_D]

I'm with TDOL on this.

Very few people make this distinction. Most people don't know the difference.

 

[chester_100]

That distinction is made in morphology. I know that people use them as synonyms, but in reality they're not; it's worth noting that testmakers are fond of this distinction very much.

-Acronym: RAM. (it can be pronounced like a word)
-Abbreviation: MDB. (we have to pronounce each letter separately, as though we were spelling the word out)