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Originally Posted by Studio25
The pedant in me has to say they are abbreviations, not acronyms.
If you want to be really pedantic, they are initialisms, which are a subset of abbreviations.
Does that count as an extra two things learned today?  |
No No and No Studio25.
Acronyms take the first letter of each word and are pronounced differently from the original expanded form. As per Margaret's post
In my industry we have SPOC's ...Single Points of Contact.
As abbreviation is written differently to the expanded form but are pronounced the same. e.g. Dr and Doctor