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# YOU'RE BOTH WRONG, IT'S A BACKRONYM.
(I helped save b3ta! MrPineapple .co.uk - TSHIRTS FOR SALE. I GIVE YOU GOOD PRICE., Sat 23 Aug 2008, 18:29, archived)
# Nope
Good answer, but you're wrong again.

If the letters are said like a word, it's an acronym.
If the letters are said one-by-one, it's an abbreviation.

See, you've learned something, good isn't it?
(I helped save b3ta! Araucaria is such a tit, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 18:58, archived)
# no, an abbreviation
is when you make one word briefer, hence abBREViation, for brevity


you are thinking of an initialism.

edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism
(I helped save b3ta! Iananan Formerly known as el-rodente, not that you care, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:02, archived)
# Close
"Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations"

from:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism
(I helped save b3ta! Araucaria is such a tit, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:14, archived)
# well, in that case we are both right
i'm just more precise


edit: haha, i'm just being a cock for no good reason here, ignore me if you want.
(I helped save b3ta! Iananan Formerly known as el-rodente, not that you care, Sat 23 Aug 2008, 19:16, archived)