What is an acronym but not a word?
initialism, is the first letter of each word of a phrase such as IRS for Internal Revenue Service which is pronounced as each letter since it's unpronounceable as a word. In its narrow sense, acronym is an initialism that is pronounced as a word – contains sufficient vowels to be pronounceable as a word.
initialism, is the first letter of each word of a phrase such as IRS for Internal Revenue Service which is pronounced as each letter since it's unpronounceable as a word. In its narrow sense, acronym is an initialism that is pronounced as a word – contains sufficient vowels to be pronounceable as a word.
