Acronym and initialism
Acronym and initialism Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations such as ... abbreviated written form. Of the two words, "acronym" is the much more frequently used and ... the two terms. These state that an acronym is a pronounceable word formed from the ... from RAdio Detection And Ranging, while an initialism refers to an abbreviation pronounced as ...
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Talk:Acronym and initialism
Talk:Acronym and initialism Archives Talk:Acronym and initialism/Archive I See also: Talk:Acronym Talk:Initialism Is the obsolescence of ...
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Talk:Acronym and initialism/Archive I
Talk:Acronym and initialism/Archive I < Talk:Acronym and initialism Merge suggestion I believe this article plus ... UTC) I believe that the articles on acronym and initialism should be merged - they ...
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Talk:Acronym
Talk:Acronym Old talk moved to /Archive 1. Early ... 2. New version Nohat, please check out Acronym/temp2. I have made attempts to remove ... be used as science terminology, and both acronym and initialism are deprecated in favour of 'abbreviated form ... just got blank stares when I mentioned initialism. By the way, when do you ...
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Talk:Initialism
Talk:Initialism QANTAS seems like a bad example here because it is not an initialism but rather, like NATO, an acronym. No one pronounces QANTAS as Que Ay ... by definition, is the difference between an initialism and an acronym viz. that the initialism is pronounced ...
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Talk:Acronym/Archive 2
Talk:Acronym/Archive 2 < Talk:Acronym Needs a rewrite and reorganization for clarity ... be carefully distinguished, not mixed all together. acronym -- a word (-nym) formed from the "high ... is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) an acronym, but also Interpol (INTERnational Criminal POlice Organization ... And Ranging). Also quasar, as per above. initialism -- a name formed from the initials ...
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Pseudo-acronym
Pseudo-acronym A pseudo-acronym is an apparent acronym or other abbreviation which doesn't stand ... merely the word "nib" spelled as an acronym [1]. Similarly, the song title "A.M ... letters [2], thus making it a pseudo-acronym. (It is however commonly but unofficially ...
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Talk:Acronym/Archive 1
Talk:Acronym/Archive 1 < Talk:Acronym When using an acronym in a sentence, what is the general ... an" that comes before use of the acronym? For example, the acronym "MOA" is what my company uses ...
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Talk:List of acronyms and initialisms
... abbreviations. (unless somebody can think of an acronym or initialism that is not an abbreviation.) Of the illustrative samples AIDS is both acronym and initialism, Interpol is an acronym but not an initialism, FBI is ...
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Talk:Backronym
... file style: a word interpreted as an acronym, though it was not originally intended. word-like acronym: an acronym that interpreted as a word has some ... are: acme, mung. Examples of word-like acronym: basic, mad, atlas (an experiment at Cern ... to describe the latter style, where the acronym was created first (as in USA ...
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