Abbreviations

Abbreviations are shorter forms of words or phrases.

There are two kinds of abbreviations - Initialism and Acronym.

The style of abbreviation combines the initial letters of each word in a series.

If the resulting abbreviation is pronounced by each of the letters in order, it is called initialism. For example - ESP, as an abbreviation for extra sensory perception.

If the abbreviation is pronounced as a word in and of itself, it is called an acronym.

Acronyms were first used in the 1940’s. The name comes from two Greek words, akron, meaning “end or tip,” and onumon, meaning “name".

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