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The letters are not necessarily the initials of separate words or even morphemes:
TV from television and American PJs or peejays from pyjamas.
Special letters, such as those of the signal alphabet,
Initialism> An abbreviation that consists of the first letter or letters of words in a phrase. Unlike acronyms, initialisms
are not spoken as words; they are spoken letter by letter.
Examples:
Acronyms: typically the initial letters of several words, pronounced according to normal orthoepical principles:
• aids ‘acquired immune deficiency syndrome’. Some forms mix the two kinds of pronunciation: Beeb from BBC, with
clipping
of the final C.
25. Clippings, fore clippings, back clippings, ambiclippings
Clipping refers to the shortening of some word while the original meaning is retained. Clipping does not create
lexemes with new meanings, but lexemes with a new stylistic value.”In morphology, a word formed by dropping one or
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