In recent years, in Ukraine there is a lot of conversations about NATO-the state and society are discussing the feasibility of joining the North Atlantic Alliance as a guarantee of security for our state. But these discussions are not always conducted competently from the point of view of the Ukrainian language.

Let's start with the fact that NATO is an abbreviation formed from the first letters of the name of the organization. At the same time, an abbreviation of non -previous, borrowed, because it was formed from the English North Atlantic Treaty Organization - " In addition, it is also attributed to unchanged vocabulary units, that is, it does not change its form, depending on the case.

Typically, such abbreviations in the Ukrainian language acquire a genus, depending on the core word.

According to this principle, NATO should be consumed in a female gender, because the noun "

However, as the Professor-Izydian Alexander Ponomariv noted in his blog, the abbreviations that are non-previous in the Ukrainian language acquire a category of genus by external signs. In this case, this feature is the similarity of this reduction with such Ukrainian words as " Therefore, dictionaries, in particular a 20-volume Sumy, advise to use the abbreviation of NATO exclusively on average.