Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20170330044846/@comment-1637496-20170511191354

Everyone who? Escort is as correct as calling them "ship", it's correct because it's generic, even a destroyer is an escort if you don't add further qualifications like "convoy escort", "fleet escort", etc. I for one will keep calling them kaibokan, there's no exact equivalent, just like "sloop" isn't translated in Italian or French.

Sure,  they are named Light Cruisers because it's written on their card, meanwhile everyone and his cat say seaplane tender while the card says seaplane carrier and they use AV when the abbreviation for seaplane carriers was CVS. This community has always been exceptionally careful about these details.

And at least when people made up those abbreviations there was no known abbreviation actually used in the USN.