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This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA or enPR then please add some! Particularly: “As acronym (like affair) or as initialism? More likely never spoken aloud, just read as separate words.”
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AFAIR
- (Internet slang) Initialism of as far as I recall/remember.
1996 July 24, LBsys, “John Baez' gravitational rainbow”, in sci.physics[1] (Usenet):In the same thread (and others as well) it was stated and AFAIR never withspoken, that light 'climbing out a gravity well' redshifts, thus looses energy, but not speed (and vice versa falling in).