Initialisms

Although the book offers a good coverage of universal abbreviations, acronyms, and what are these days called "initialisms" in its 27,000 entries and "over" 37,000 definitions and goes into British material quite thoroughly, it is too sparse in its inclusion of American matter to make it of significant usefulness to American users, who should cleave to the De Sola dictionaries of abbreviations. ❋ Unknown (1991)

A year or so ago, I was looking for a way to help identify acronyms and initialisms in my company's documents, and came across a document called "Advanced Find and Replace for Microsoft Word" at [www. editorium.com] Who knew you could write 20 pages about find a replace. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters « Sentence first | Learn English Online With Me says: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Technically, acronyms are pronounced as if they were words (e.g., "NASA"), and initialisms are pronounced one letter at a time (as in "CIA"). ❋ Unknown (2011)

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters « Sentence first ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters ❋ Unknown (2009)

Plurals of acronyms, abbreviations, initialisms and single letters do not usually take apostrophes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Regarding capitalisation of acronyms and initialisms, conventions vary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which means every time one of my teenage daughters uses the icons and initialisms (those delightful "LOLs" and "TTYLs") to express her thoughts, she is reviving the ancient Egyptian language system based on icons, pictures, and sounds. ❋ Dr. Galit Dayan (2010)

The conversational slang, acronyms and initialisms around divorce used in blogs, emails, and even texts these days is an ever-growing library of abbreviated terms. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

A year or so ago, I was looking for a way to help identify acronyms and initialisms in my company's documents, and came across a document called "Advanced Find and Replace for Microsoft Word" at www.editorium.com Who knew you could write 20 pages about find a replace. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm not sure whether any previous research has been done on gender differences in non-spoken speech Labov, et al, I know for "normal" speech: such as use of initialisms, emoticons, non standard, phonetic spellings, but I've ordered your Txting book, anyway! ❋ DC (2008)

Netniks, with their fondness for initialisms, call it the "" Y2K Crisis, '' and if you type "" Y2K '' into your favorite search engine you'll be amazed by the frenzy this issue generates. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I just assume everyone knows all the jargony professional initialisms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

WBU's, I like it - we're all about the initialisms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I found out about a nifty application at Linguistics & Languages: an Acronym Finder: ...the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms...contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations... ❋ Mj (2007)

Abbreviations.com is a nifty site for looking up the meanings of appropriately enough abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Our conventions for pluralizing initialisms are an absolute mess. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She initiated the [hug] by [opening] her arms and smiling at me to come [forth]. ❋ Noah (2003)

"Hey what's your [fandom]? [I'm a] [Initiate], and you?" "I'm [initiate] too." ❋ Mrs1Divergent (2015)

Gang leader: You must go through initiation before becoming a member. wanna be [gang member]: What do I have to do to join this gang? Gang leader: Rob a gas station at [gun point], [break in] a car and steal shit, and fight our toughest member for 15 min. ❋ AJ Wahl (2006)

[Fuck it], I'm [going]. I'm [taking] initiative. ❋ Kryptia (2009)

Nate: New York was great, we went on a tour of the [Yune] and met the Secretary-General. [Trav]: Nate, it's not called the Yune, it's called the [U.N]., it's an initialism for [United Nations] Nate: Oh.... what the fuck is an initialism? Trav: You're an idiot everyone knows an initialsm is when you say the letters - like U.N. Nate: Isn't that basically an acronym? Trav: No you tool. An acronym is when you make the initials of something into a new word, like NASA. They're two TOTALLY different things. Sayran: Oh Trav - you're too smart for me! ❋ Just_the_tip (2010)

[USA] is an [initialism], while [NASA] is an acronym. ❋ EndyStar (2020)

[The chalupa] had been [in the fridge] for several days; Mike took initiative and [ate it] for lunch. ❋ Jim Bob Rad (2009)

first [she ate] [a cheeseburger], initiate [fries] ❋ J2theIZZIEMM (2005)

[My wife] ate three [double cheeseburgers] initiate some [fries]. ❋ Micah (2003)

"So, today I wrote your [initials] on the front of my [science] [binder]." "Oh no! You've reached initialization!" ❋ Xxxpartyqueenxxx (2010)