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/ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm/
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ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm
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A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
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The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The process of forming words or terms using initial letters of other words.
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The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.
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a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word
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‘NATO’ is an initialism for North Atlantic Treaty Organization
the word ‘scuba’ is an acronym for s(elf)-c(ontained) u(nderwater) b(reathing) a(pparatus)
an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately
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HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language