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Ali.h Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Acronym
Take a look at this definition of “acronym” from dictionary.com:
A word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as WAC from Women’s Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
What i do not understand is where it says: “A word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words...”
I understand an acronym being formed from the intial letters of words, but what does the group of letters mean?!
A word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as WAC from Women’s Army Corps, OPEC from Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
What i do not understand is where it says: “A word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words...”
I understand an acronym being formed from the intial letters of words, but what does the group of letters mean?!
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Hi, Maybe it means that some acronyms are formed, not by taking one single letter of each word, but by taking two or more. For example, suppose there's this company called 'Drink Cool'. Now, if you were to take 'D and R' from the first word and 'C and O' from the second word, you would get 'DRICO', right?
- Hi, Maybe it means that some acronyms are formed, not by taking one single letter of each word, but by taking two or more.
- For example, suppose there's this company called 'Drink Cool'.
- Now, if you were to take 'D and R' from the first word and 'C and O' from the second word, you would get 'DRICO', right?
- Of course, you would have to pronounce it like 'dry-co', otherwise it wouldn't technically be an acronym.
- This way, I'd would say, you use groups of letters of words, because you use more than one per word.
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Hi,
Maybe it means that some acronyms are formed, not by taking one single letter of each word, but by taking two or more.
For example, suppose there's this company called 'Drink Cool'. Now, if you were to take 'D and R' from the first word and 'C and O' from the second word, you would get 'DRICO', right? Of course, you would have to pronounce it like 'dry-co', otherwise it wou
Maybe it means that some acronyms are formed, not by taking one single letter of each word, but by taking two or more.
For example, suppose there's this company called 'Drink Cool'. Now, if you were to take 'D and R' from the first word and 'C and O' from the second word, you would get 'DRICO', right? Of course, you would have to pronounce it like 'dry-co', otherwise it wou
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