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in thread Determining if a word is really an abbreviation

I'm backing Halley on this one, and strongly disagreeing with hardburn and dragonchild.
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Re^4: Determining if a word is really an abbreviation
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 16, 2004 at 11:05 UTC
    Well, you're all wrong. An acronym is an abbreviation (synonyms). Its just concidence that in practice most words which get called "acronyms" are words formed from the initial letters of a multi-word name. It doesn't stop them from being abbrev.
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