initialisms

Although the book offers a good coverage of universal abbreviations, acronyms, and what are these days called "initialisms" in its 27,000 entries and "over" 37,000 definitions and goes into British material quite thoroughly, it is too sparse in its inclusion of American matter to make it of significant usefulness to American users, who should cleave to the De Sola dictionaries of abbreviations.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2 1991

Technically, acronyms are pronounced as if they were words (e.g., "NASA"), and initialisms are pronounced one letter at a time (as in "CIA").

2011 in Words 2011

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Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters « Sentence first

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters do not usually take apostrophes.

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

A year or so ago, I was looking for a way to help identify acronyms and initialisms in my company's documents, and came across a document called "Advanced Find and Replace for Microsoft Word" at [www. editorium.com] Who knew you could write 20 pages about find a replace.

Find All The Acronyms In Word Documents | Lifehacker Australia 2009

Regarding capitalisation of acronyms and initialisms, conventions vary.

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters 2009

Which means every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms (those delightful "LOLs" and "TTYLs") to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds.

Dr. Galit Dayan: Text like an Egyptian Dr. Galit Dayan 2010

Which means every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms (those delightful "LOLs" and "TTYLs") to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds.

Dr. Galit Dayan: Text like an Egyptian 2010