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Old 01-05-2014, 11:34   #256
Margaret Pilkington
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

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Originally Posted by Studio25 View Post
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?
This is the definition of an Acronym...from The OED

acronym: definition of acronym in Oxford dictionary (British & World English)
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