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Regina Russell 10/24/2021
Acronymy- a phrase is reduced to initials and then the initials are pronounced as if a typical word.
The first known usage of acronyms was in 1879 for the telegraphic code
created by William P. Phillips.*
* Zimmerman 2010
* Zimmerman 2010
* Curzan pg. 113
Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary first publised in 1960.
Text and Social media language
Examples:
*Top 50 Text Abbreviations...
AIDS
Acronym Dictionary
POTUS
Today
1943
YEAR
1980
1960
1879
Bea
Yolo
Radar
Sonar
Curzan, Anne, and Michael Adams. How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction. Pearson Longman, 2012.
Zimmer, Ben “Acronym.” Nytimes.com, The New York Times Magazine, 16 December 2010, https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19FOB-onlanguage-t.html. Accessed 24 October 2021.
“Top 50 Text Abbreviations and Internet Acronyms in 2021.” Words Matter Wix, 30 June 2020, https://www.wix.com/wordsmatter/blog/2020/07/text-abbreviations-and-internet-acronyms/