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	Acronym and initialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations formed from the initial letter or letters of words, such as NATO and XHTML, and are pronounced in a way that is distinct from the full pronunciation of what the letters stand for.
		Acronyms and initialisms often occur in jargon or as names of organizations because they often serve as abbreviations of long terms that are frequently referenced, so a shortened form is desirable.
		Initialism originally referred to abbreviations formed from initials, without reference to pronunciation, but during the middle portion of the twentieth century, when acronyms and initialisms saw more use than ever before, the word acronym was coined for abbreviations which are pronounced as a word, like "NATO" or "AIDS".
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Acronym (1387 words)

	Initialism
		An initialism is an abbreviation formed by using the first letters, or initials, of a series of words, for example BBC, IBM, or NATO.
		The term initialism is often used by those who prefer to define an acronym as an abbreviation whose letters form a pronounceable word, like NATO or AIDS.
		"Initialism" is then the name of the category for abbreviations that don't meet the strict definition of acronym and are pronounced as a series of the names of the constituent letters.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/in/Initialism.html (112 words)

	Learn more about Acronym in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Depending on how many of the constituent words begin with vowels and the phonotactics of the language an acronym exists in, acronyms can be pronounced as a word, as a series of the names of the letters, or some combination of the two.
		However, this usage is becoming less common as the presence of all capital letters is sufficient to indicate the word is an abbreviation; however, some influential usage guides insist on the many-periods treatment, such as the one used by the New York Times.
		Sometimes non-initial letters, and the initials of short function words (such as "and", "or", "of", or "to") are included in the acronym to make it pronounceable, in contradiction to the normal rule for abbreviation.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /a/ac/acronym.html (583 words)

	TLA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) is the most popular type of acronym in computing and telecom terminology and Internet slang, and is also very common in general language.
		There is some disagreement about whether abbreviations like TLA actually constitute acronyms (see acronym and initialism), and this has led to the increasing use of the word abbreviation as opposed to acronym in expanding the term.
		TLAs are typically pronounced as initialisms (i.e., Tee Ell Ay) and written in all capital letters.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Three_letter_acronym (780 words)

	Directory - Reference: Dictionaries: Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lists of abbreviations constructed mostly from the initial letters of the words of a phrase, with their meanings.
		Acronym Master List for LANL · cached · Large list of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and short forms that are used by or useful to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		List of US Government Acronyms · cached · A glossary compiled by Deborah Hollis and Norberto Lozoya-Escobar of acronyms found in US government databases or bulletin boards on the Internet and in print publications.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=238386 (998 words)

	abbr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A distinction is to be observed between abbreviations and the contractions that are frequently to be met with in old manuscripts, and even in early printed books, whereby letters are dropped out here and there, or particular collocations of letters represented by somewhat arbitrary symbols.
		The commonest form of abbreviation is the substitution for a word of its initial letter; but, with a view to prevent ambiguity, one or more of the other letters are frequently added.
		Initially based on a British encyclopedia published in 1911, this article may reflect the thinking of the turn of the last century.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Abbr..html (1736 words)

	Acronyms
		Acronym Master List for LANL - Large list of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and short forms that are used by or useful to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		Acronyms - Lists hundreds of original, funny, and sometimes educational and mnemonic acronyms.
		List of US Government Acronyms - A glossary compiled by Deborah Hollis and Norberto Lozoya-Escobar of acronymns found in US government databases or bulletin boards on the Internet and in print publications.
	www.supercrawler.com /Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (887 words)

	Microform list
		Ranks listed are those held by the soldier at the time the medal was awarded.
		The first and third sub-series are arranged alphabetically by initial letter of the surname or office of the writer and numbered in a separate sequence for each letter of the alphabet.
		List is arranged first by source then by a combination of location and topic.
	www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/microform.asp (10982 words)

	List of acronyms and initialisms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
		Because of the list's size, acronyms and initialisms beginning with certain characters appear in separate articles.
		This means that only alphanumeric characters have any significance in determining order, and that lowercase letters occupy the same ordering position as uppercase (in tie-breaker cases, list lower case first).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_initialisms (2169 words)

	List of portmanteaus - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is a partial list of portmanteaus or "blends" — words formed by combining two other words, in the English language.
		This is list of identified non-portmanteaus and should be moved elsewhere.
		The article about List of portmanteaus contains information related to List of portmanteaus, General, Internet and computing, Marketing, Art, literature and entertainment (pop culture), Organizations, companies and brand names, Animals, Portmanteaus by Lewis Carroll from Jabberwocky, Politics, economics and geography, Portmanteaus of portmanteaus, Non-portmanteaus and See also.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/List_of_portmanteaus (2327 words)

	DerKeiler Directory - /Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Large list of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and short forms that are used by or useful to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		Lists hundreds of original, funny, and sometimes educational and mnemonic acronyms.
		List of almost 1200 abbreviations, focusing especially on those commonly used on the Internet.
	directory.derkeiler.com /Top/Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (522 words)

	Talk:Acronym - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		The title "initialisms as acronym" is, I'm sorry to say, a suble push of the traditionalist POV in that it makes the assumption that "initialisms aren't acronyms", which is the core of the debate.
		I have created numerous glossaries and acronym lists, and no-one has ever corrected me. I am by nature a pedant, (which is why I irritate my colleagues by using '-ize' rather than '-ise', as Fowler recommends), so if I had found that initialism was the correct form, then I would have adopted it.
		All that said, my research bears out that initialism was the original usage from 1899, and that acronym was introduced in the 1940s to give a name to initialisms that could be pronounced as a word (as opposed to spelling out the letters).
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Talk:Acronym (6514 words)

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	List of portmanteaus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a partial list of portmanteaux or "blends"
		These words are formed by combining two other words, in the English language.
		This is an incomplete list, which can or may never satisfy any subjective standard for completeness.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_portmanteaus (2776 words)

	Net Lingua (Internet Language) > Acronyms and abbreviations
		The lists contain various sorts of abbreviation, including acronyms, which are words made from the ititial letters of other words, and pronounced as a word themselves, and initialisms, which are like acronyms, but pronounced by spelling out the letters individually.
		In this first list, you will find the abbreviations that are most commonly encountered.
		Although all these abbreviations are given in upper case letters (as acronyms and initialisms should be, standardly), you are just as likely to enounter many of them written, in informal situations, in lower case characters.
	www.fun-with-words.com /acronyms.html (445 words)

	List Transistor Free : Discount Electronics
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		See live article List of initialisms This is a list of initialisms, acronyms that are pronounced as a series of the names of the constituent letters (but, there is disagreement on some; e.g.
		See live article List of Intel microprocessors Here is a list of Intel microprocessors: 4004 Introduced November 15, 1971 Clock speed 740 kHz 0.06 MIPS Bus Width 4 bits (multiplexed address/data due to limited pins) PMOS Number of Transistors 2,300 at 10 m Addressable Memory 640 bytes...
	www.cobourgpuc.com /316-List-Transistor-Free.html (1548 words)

	Extremely low frequency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The low transmission rate of most ELF communications limits their use as communications channels; generally an ELF signal serves to request that a submarine surface and initiate some other form of contact.
		One of the difficulties posed when broadcasting in the ELF frequency range is antenna size.
		Increasing the speed of the magnetic tape increases the pitch, so that it is brought into the audio frequency range.
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/e/ex/extremely_low_frequency.html (256 words)

	Medical Library Association: Style Manual: Abbreviations
		Many acceptable abbreviations and initialisms and their usage are specified throughout this manual and its appendixes.
		In a directory or list whose main purpose is to help the reader contact a firm or to highlight MLA Corporate Partners or contributors, the above abbreviations or their spelled-out names should be retained; follow the individual company's preference.
		See Appendix D for a list of abbreviations, initialisms, and acronyms common to MLA publications.
	www.mlanet.org /publications/style/style_abbreviations.html (575 words)

	AUE: Initialisms Commonly Used in alt.usage.english
		Following is a list of strings that have been selected from the full search results.
		The colon is only a delimiter for this list and not part of the string.
		I've put asterisks in front of the initialisms that I prefer, for what that is worth.
	alt-usage-english.org /abbreviations.html (505 words)

	Open Directory - Reference: Dictionaries: Acronyms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources - Acronyms for global information and data resources in the health sciences.
		Health and Safety Acronyms - Short list used in the field of UK Occupational Health and Safety.
		United States Government Abbreviations and Acronyms - Major agencies are listed alphabetically.
	dmoz.org /Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (668 words)

	LDS Business College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		See live article List of colleges and universities in the United States This List of colleges and universities in the United States includes colleges and universities in the U.S that grant four-year baccalaureate and/or post-graduate master's and doctorate degrees.
		The list does not include community colleges (alternatively called junior colleges) that grant two-year associate's degrees.
	www.tvnc.ca /college/LDS+Business+College (1332 words)

	Acronyms Dictionaries Reference
		is the much more frequently used and known, and many dictionaries, speakers and writers refer to all abbreviations formed from initial letters as acronyms.
		- Large list of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and short forms that are used by or useful to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
		- Lists hundreds of original, funny, and sometimes educational and mnemonic acronyms.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Reference/Dictionaries/Acronyms (887 words)

	List Of Abbreviations Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	LearningStation ResourceCenter: Dictionaries/Acronyms
		Apronyms - Lists hundreds of original, funny, and sometimes educational and mnemonic acronyms.
		Canonical Abbreviation/Acronym List - List of mostly Internet/chat acronyms and abbreviations
		List of US Government Acronyms - A glossary compiled by Deborah Hollis and Norberto Lozoya-Escobar of acronyms found in US government databases or bulletin boards on the Internet and in print publications.
	resource.learningstation.com /Dictionaries/Acronyms (1078 words)

	ipedia.com: Acronym Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An acronym is an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of words.
		This usage is becoming less common as the presence of all capital letters is sufficient to indicate the word is an abbreviation; nevertheless some influential usage guides still insist on the many-periods treatment, such as the one used by the New York Times, but others—most notably, at the BBC—no longer require this.
		During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemesis to employ names that were acronyms.
	www.ipedia.com /acronym.html (876 words)

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