Talk:Abbreviations

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Tanos says: "Er, almost all of these are abbreviations rather than acronyms. Can we rename this page to Abbreviations? ('BDSM' is just an abbreviation: you can't say it, you have to spell it out. 'RACK' is an abbreviation AND also an acronym: the abbreviation forms a word you can pronounce.)"

Interesdom: Thanks for the English lesson  :-) I think it worthwhile leaving the redirect in place (if only for people like me who didn't know the difference) but I've moved the page!

Actually Abbreviations is the supper category. esp. is a pure Abbreviations. but beyond that there is no academic consensus if acronyms are split among ones like FUBAR, and what some people call intialism (like TLA). The Oxford diction for example defined both as acronyms. --Roguebfl (talk) 08:39, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
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