Acronym | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:00:51 1 Nomenclature
00:04:13 2 Comparing a few examples of each type
00:12:24 3 Historical and current use
00:20:22 3.1 Early examples in English
00:21:46 3.2 Current use
00:24:46 3.2.1 Aids to learning the expansion without leaving a document
00:27:11 3.2.2 Jargon
00:28:08 3.2.3 As mnemonics
00:28:57 3.2.4 Acronyms as legendary etymology
00:30:33 4 Orthographic styling
00:30:43 4.1 Punctuation
00:30:52 4.1.1 Showing the ellipsis of letters
00:31:42 4.1.1.1 Ellipsis-is-understood style
00:32:15 4.1.1.2 Pronunciation-dependent style and periods
00:33:01 4.1.1.3 Other conventions
00:35:37 4.1.2 Representing plurals and possessives
00:41:14 4.2 Case
00:41:23 4.2.1 All-caps style
00:42:10 4.2.1.1 Small-caps variant
00:43:03 4.2.1.2 Mixed-case variant
00:43:50 4.2.2 Pronunciation-dependent style and case
00:45:22 4.3 Numerals and constituent words
00:47:18 4.4 Casing of expansions
00:48:53 5 Changes to (or word play on) the expanded meaning
00:49:06 5.1 Pseudo-acronyms
00:51:51 5.2 Redundant acronyms and RAS syndrome
00:54:08 5.3 Simple redefining
00:56:04 5.4 Backronyms
00:57:15 5.5 Contrived acronyms
01:03:34 5.6 Macronyms/nested acronyms
01:08:49 5.6.1 Recursive acronyms
01:10:00 6 Non-English languages
01:10:11 6.1 Specific languages
01:10:20 6.1.1 Chinese
01:13:26 6.1.2 Korean
01:13:42 6.1.3 Japanese
01:15:07 6.1.4 German
01:17:11 6.1.5 Hebrew
01:18:40 6.1.6 Indonesian
01:19:51 6.1.7 Russian
01:21:06 6.1.8 Swahili
01:23:34 6.1.9 Vietnamese
01:24:51 6.2 General grammatical considerations
01:25:24 6.2.1 Declension
01:29:03 6.2.2 Lenition
01:29:14 7 Extremes
01:30:21 8 See also
01:31:14 9 Notes
01:34:11 10 References



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SUMMARY
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An acronym is a word or name formed as an abbreviation from the initial components of a phrase or a word, usually individual letters, as in NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) or SCUBA (Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) and sometimes syllables (as in "Benelux").
There are no universal standards for the multiple names for such abbreviations or for their orthographic styling. In English and most other languages, such abbreviations historically had limited use, but they became much more common in the 20th century. Acronyms result from a word formation process known as blending, in which parts of two or more words are combined to form a new word.