Entirely agree there, Steve. It is always a shame when the precise meaning of a word becomes obscured and less specific in its application thru widespread misuse or misapprehension, which there is much danger of happening to 'acronym, liable to degenerate to meaning just any old abbreviation, rather than one than can be, and generally is, pronounced as a word.

Disagree, however, with your objection to such a pronunciation of IMHO. Object to any word which happens to have a homonym (or in this case the merest hint of a sort of creole one) of dubious or disobliging meaning, and where will be the end of it? We shall have to abolish all our rape fields for a start, and what would that do for our agriculture!

~M~