alphagov/whitehall — pull request #957 by jennyd (2013-10-15 20:30:09+00:00)
Title: Change 'acronym' to 'abbreviation' in organisations API

Although the column here is called 'acronym', its values are more varied
than that suggests. Some organisations have acronyms which are identical
to their names, and some acronyms are shorter forms of the name (putting
to one side pedantry over acronyms versus initialisms...) e.g.:

name acronym
Home Office Home Office
Forestry Commission Forestry
Interception of Communications Commissioner Interception Commissioner

Using the more general term 'abbreviation' for these short forms in the
organisations API makes it clearer what kind of data to expect here.