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This is not Google. If you want to search the web, try Got a new acronym to tell us about? Use our form. What's an Acronym?An acronym is a kind of abbreviation. The word comes from Greek, meaning heads of names. Acronyms are usually made from the capitalised initials of the words it represents, for example FBI is an acronym for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Occasionally, for special reasons, the second letter of a word is used, as in XML (eXtensible Markup Language), but this is deprecated. Sometimes more than one letter is included for a word, to avoid ambiguity or because they form an existing abbreviation, as in SACEUR (Supreme Allied Commander, Europe) Contrary to what some sources say, acronyms do not have to be pronounceable words (for example FBI is spelled out when spoken, whereas NASA is not). Some sources use the word initialism to refer to the spelled acronyms. |
Who we are and what we doYes, this is the Internet Acronym Server you know and love; we've just changed location and changed appearance. Bookmark the new address now: We've been collecting acronyms from all over the Internet for the best part of two decades, and we just reset the counter back to approximately the right number, taken from the logs to 2006 (so we're missing a few million hits but we don't know how many). If anyone has a screenshot or printout of a page up to 2008 or early 2009 with a more up-to-date value (it was well over 30M) please get in touch. |
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