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Wikipedia initialism (plural initialisms)

  1. A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
    BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.

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Sat Sep 4 16:26:52 2010

Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO) or parts of words (as in Benelux). There is no universal agreement on the precise definition of the various terms (see nomenclature), nor on written usage (see orthographic styling). While popular in recent English, such abbreviations have historical use in English as well as other languages. As a type of word formation process, acronyms and initialisms are viewed as a subtype of blending.

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Sat Sep 4 03:09:30 2010

ICQ (from "I seek you ") is neither an abbreviation nor an initialism, but what kind of linguistic term is it
Q. ICQ (from "I seek you ") is neither an abbreviation nor an initialism, but what kind of linguistic term is it
Asked by Alex N - Sun Jan 27 14:35:21 2008 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. It's called acronym. An acronym is a word whose letters represent other words each. For example, I stands for I, C stands for C and etc, even though this one is a bit weird, because Q doesn't stand for you, but it's still an acronym, because that's the original purpose of ICQ, to shorten words (in this case, 3 words) with their initials.
Answered by Kool J. B. - Sun Jan 27 14:50:12 2008

what does the initialism PDBAZ stand for?
Q. see or
Asked by AntonAnswers - Tue Apr 6 21:05:04 2010 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Just watched the latest Video? It means: Please Don't Be A Zombie. In reference to his Please don't be a zombie video.
Answered by DJ - Tue Apr 6 22:17:40 2010

Eagle, Globe, and Anchor vs. EGA?
Q. I'm looking for a news article or official USMC document that talks about the use of the initialism 'EGA' in place of Eagle, Globe, and Anchor and how the term EGA is not preferred among Marines because it's considered lazy or just plain disrespectful of our Marine Corps Emblem. Any help would be appreciated. hyperlinks are perfectly fine, thanks.
Asked by CT - Sun May 11 15:18:48 2008 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

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