Acronym Section?

Originally Posted by H2O_Doc Lots of these are abbreviations and not acronyms. Acronyms for words that can be pronounced. (E.g. LASER, RADAR, or NASA). LOL, CBE, and the like are

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12-19-2013, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by H2O_Doc

Lots of these are abbreviations and not acronyms. Acronyms for words that can be pronounced. (E.g. LASER, RADAR, or NASA). LOL, CBE, and the like are just plain- o abbreviations.

The word you're thinking of is initialisms. That said, acronym used to have to be a pronounceable word but has come to mean the same as initialism as that's how it's used most often these days.

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