Questions tagged [initialisms]
An initialism is an abbreviated form of multiple words using the initial letters of those words, but is pronounced by enunciating each letter singly (for example, USDA or UN).
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Should I use the definite article with a short-form name? The Mordor RPG vs. Mordor RPG
I’m seeking guidance on a question related to my current project. I’m working on a crowdfunding campaign for a roleplaying game. For the sake of example, let’s call it Mordor: The Roleplaying Game. On ...
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Why are there so many dictionaries?
My original question got overshadowed by this one while looking into it.
So my new question is this.
Why are there so many different English dictionaries all with differing views on things such as ...
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When mentioning this initialism, should the article be used?
When discussing the name of Egypt, should we use "the A.R.E" or just "A.R.E"?
Most young students don't know that "A.R.E" is the compound name of Egypt.
Most young ...
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How to designate abbreviations that are neither acronyms nor initialisms?
Acronyms and initialisms are special kinds of abbreviations.
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How to designate abbreviations that are neither acronyms nor initialisms?
Examples:
Dr.: doctor
lb.: pound (from the ...
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What is "`CUSTOMER SVC`" in fully spelled out English? [closed]
It is difficult to use machine translation in order to translate abbreviations from English to Spanish when the words are not spelled correctly.
What is "CUSTOMER SVC" in fully spelled out ...
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What is "ASST DEPT" in fully spelled out English?
It is difficult to use machine translation in order to translate abbreviations from English to Spanish when the words are not spelled correctly.
What is ASST DEPT fully spelled out orthographically ...
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an sp³ carbon or a sp³ carbon?
It is a chemical term used to denote the hybridization of an atom. It is an initialism of "s orbital and p orbital" to get "sp".
"sp" starts with a consonant letter so ...
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Why didn't we pluralize the abbreviated form in the sentence below in spite of the non-abbreviated form being pluralized?
Of the nine traction power sub-stations (TPSS), five shall be equipped with four DC feeders and four shall be equipped with six DC feeders.
the above sentence is an example in the book ' Writing in ...
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How do I find out if something is an initialism or an acronym?
How do I find out if an abbreviation is an initialism, which means I need to put "the" before it, or an acronym, for which I don't need to? (If I don't know how it is pronounced)
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An SNL skit or a SNL skit? [duplicate]
An SNL skit or a SNL skit?
I am pretty sure it's "an", but I wasn't exactly sure, because I was news articles use "a" instead.
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"The BBC" or BBC (without the)
When often hear on TV, such as "This is CNN" or "This is BBC World". There is no "THE" before the name of the TV. So far so good.
However, I have recently been listening to some scientific panel ...
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Should I use "a" or "an" when I abbreviate a word?
Taking notes, I was going to write this:
therefore p′ is a shortest path.
But the topic is APSP which stands for "all pairs shortest paths" so I decided to just write SP instead and...
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What if an abbreviation is formed of different letters, not the first letters
I have encountered a very confusing abbreviation form.
ex) an electrical vehicle charging apparatus (EVSE).
I've searched on Google and have found out that the EVSE stands for "electrical vehicle ...
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initialisms vs acronyms vs abbreviations [closed]
What is the difference between these initialisms vs acronyms vs abbreviations?
As I understand from SO:
initialisms are like BOA,USA(i.e. letter by letter).
acronyms are like NASA, AIDS(i.e. ...
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What does POPs mean here?
I am reading a post about network, I don't know what "POPs" mean here:
Our big, global, managed DNS network — the one most of our customers use — is spread across six continents and 17 POPs (with ...
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