Comment by sherbondy

As a side note, do any native Mandarin speakers have a good understanding of why app is usually spelled and pronounced as if it were an acronym (A.P.P.) instead of an abbreviation? Have been wondering about this for months, and the Quora thread on it is a little unsatisfactory: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Chinese-people-in-China-pr...