Inglise leksikoloogia kordamisküsimuste vastused
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Examples: baby-sit (babysitter), televise (television), emote (emotion), edit (editor), burgle (burglar), peeve (peevish),
diagnose (diagnosis)
24. Alphabetisms, initialisms, acronyms – types of shortening
Alphabetisms: An expression may be shortened to a sequence of letters pronounced as their names, as FM ‘frequency
modulation’ is pronounced ‘eff em’. 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
annaabi.ee 
