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| | Acronym and initialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | When an acronym is part of a function in computing that is conventionally written in lowercase, it is common to use an apostrophe to pluralize or otherwise conjugate the token. | | | In computer lingo, it is common to use the name of a computer program, format, or function, acronym or not, as a verb; for example "Sam zipped the files" or "Sam zip’ed the files" means that John used the program zip on the files to combine and/or compress them. | | | Initialisms may have advantages in international markets: for example, some national affiliates of International Business Machines are legally incorporated as "IBM" (or, for example, "IBM Canada") to avoid translating the full name into local languages. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialism
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| | Goodbye ACRONYM - Anne’s Weblog about Markup & Style |
| | In the simplest case, a word constructed by combining the initial letters of the principle words in a phrase to produce something which can be pronounced as a word and which has the same meaning as the original phrase... | | | Adam M. I agree with the W3C that how to pronounce a word, whether it is initialized, abbreviated or an acronym, is style. | | | An abbreviation is any type of shortened form of a word or phrase. |
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http://annevankesteren.nl/2004/06/goodbye-acronym
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| | Accessible Information Solutions - Shortened forms on the web |
| | The classification of 'abbr' and 'acronym' elements in the HTML 4.01 Specification is as phrase elements that add structural information to text fragments. | | | JAWS 5.0 appeared to be identical to version 4.51 in regard to recognition of acronym and abbreviation elements, from information in the accompanying manual, and so was omitted from testing. | | | Other key observations included the use of an asterisk to denote mandatory form fields and input format information that was not announced or was pronounced in manner that was not useful to the user. |
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http://www.nils.org.au/ais/web/resources/ozewai2003/short_forms.htm
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| | Abbreviation Dictionary, Acronym Dictionary, Abbreviation Search, Meaning of Words |
| | The Abbreviation is a database of more than 334,000 abbreviations and acronyms about computers abbreviations, Chat abbreviations, Scientific abbreviations and many more. | | | a shortened form of a word or words, either the use of initials instead of a whole word, for example: FFE (Friends for ever) or the first few letters, for example: approx. | | | a huge searchable list of abbreviations and acronyms than can take the mystery out of the most obscure computing, medical, or governmental terminology. |
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http://abbreviations.virtualsplat.com
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| | AcronymGenie review, download at Softpicks Net |
| | AcronymGenie is a simple desktop program that lets you look up the expansion of a computer acronym, abbreviation or initialism using an offline database. | | | A searchable database of computer acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms. | | | The Help file explains all the features of the program in detail. |
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http://www.softpicks.net/software/AcronymGenie-6395.htm
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| | Word of the Week--27 |
| | Since the object of using these abbreviated forms is to make copy easier to read and less cluttered, resist using an acronym or initialism for every phrase that has one. | | | However, because acronyms and initialisms can have multiple meanings (like IDE and SST), it's a good idea to define each the first time it occurs in a document. | | | For some acronyms and initialisms, not every word in the phrase is represented: |
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http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/WordOfWeekArchive/week27.cfm
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| | Define anacronym - a Whatis.com definition |
| | An example of an acronym that probably won't become lower-cased is WINS (Windows Internet Naming Service). | | | An abbreviation formed of letters that don't form a word is sometimes known as an "initialism." Our Webster's cites "snafu" and "radar" as examples of acronyms. | | | We don't think anyone has looked at this issue squarely (and we're not planning to ourselves, but just wanted to demonstrate the ambiguous kind of world we live in...which is why most people frankly don't care whether an acronym is a word or not). |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211560,00.html
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| | [bl] Acronym vs Initialism |
| | Likewise, NASA is spoken as a word, it's > >>>> not pronounced "En Ay Ess Ay;" it too is a true acronym. | | | For > >>>> example, the disease AIDS is pronounced "aids," not "Ay Eye Dee Ess." > >>>> Thus, "AIDS" is a true acronym. | | | > >>>> But the email discussions that I had with several readers about KVMs > >>>> took an odd language-related turn that might be helpful to others--- > >>>> after all, we all must wade through a morass of jargon, abbreviations, > >>>> and acronyms in dealing with computers. |
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http://lists.samurai.com/pipermail/bryans-list/2002-June/007025.html
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| | Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Fading language distinctions |
| | The first response in Google when you enter “define acronym,” sparklist, gets it wrong: “An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of a series of words.” That’s an initialism. | | | The next seven would be ambiguous, except that two of them use as examples initialisms that aren’t acronyms (IEEE and LRC). | | | And yet you see “IBM” and “ALA” and “IEEE&; and many other initialisms called “acronyms.” They’re not. |
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http://walt.lishost.org/?p=7
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| | Define acronym - a Whatis.com definition - see also: apronym, backronym, recursive acronym |
| | An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms). | | | Abbreviations that use the first letter of each word in a phrase are sometimes referred to as initialisms. | | | Frequently, acronyms are formed that use existing words (and sometimes the acronym is invented first and the phrase name represented is designed to fit the acronym). |
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http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci211518,00.html
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| | Blogger: Email Post to a Friend |
| | To qualify for inclusion in the RAP project, a phrase should be one which is (or was at one time) actually in common use. | | | The Redundant Acronym Phrase project gathers these occurrences of RAS syndrome. | | | Remember Me Saves your name and e-mail address on this computer |
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http://www.blogger.com/email-post.g?blogID=3549160&postID=113619838923661924
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| | SSC San Diego Corporate Image Progam - Name and Initialism |
| | Usage: SSC San Diego is used only on products that document the scientific and technical work of the Center, marketing materials, and on internal documentation, such as instructions and standard operating procedures. | | | Usage: The acronym/plain language address must be used in formal correspondence and letters of transmittal. | | | Punctuation: Do not use a comma with the initialism. |
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http://www.nosc.mil/sti/publications/corpimage/nameinit.html
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| | ISS - |
| | Instruction Set Simulator is a computer program that simulates a processor at the instruction-set level (unlike timing-accurate or register-transfer-level simulators). | | | This page expands a three-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. | | | ISS is an abbreviation, acronym, or initialism that may refer to: |
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http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/ISS
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| | Dr. Grammar - Frequently Asked Questions |
| | An initialism is an abbreviation that is formed by combining the initial letter of each word in a multiword term. | | | For example, a phrase such as "primary software overlay area" can become tiresome if repeated again and again in one piece of writing; it would be better, therefore, to use PSOA. | | | --If something is better known by its acronym or initialism than by its formal term, you should use the abbreviated form. |
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http://www.drgrammar.org/faqs
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| | Acronyms and Initialisms |
| | If Acrobat® Reader® is not included in your browser, you can download the current version of this software free and use it as a standalone program to view pdf files. | | | Computer terms from the Ultimate Computer Acronyms Archive | | | Acronym Finder: Over 142,000 general terms from Mountain Data Systems |
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http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/editing/ACRONYM.cfm
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| | Capitalization Rules and Acronyms Ask MetaFilter |
| | An acronym is an initialisation which forms another word -- like radar and laser. | | | For example, if you're developing a tool for Web designers, there's no reason to write out HTML. | | | "An acronym is a word made up of initials or syllables from a combination of other words. |
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http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/23100
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| | Abbreviation and acronym/initialism expansion procedures for a text to speech reader (US5634084) |
| | An abbreviation expansion procedure evaluates, based on the classification values for words neighboring the identified words, which, if any, of the potential expansion values is applicable, and substitutes the potential expansion for the identified abbreviation word when evaluation yields a success value. | | | An acronym/initialism expanding procedure identifies words in the text message that are acronyms and initialisms, parses pronounceable syllables within the identified words and generates a substitute string that can consist of any combination of letters, numbers, pronounceable syllables or multiple letter identifiers. |
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http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US05634084
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| | What is acronym? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary |
| | In everyday speech, the term is also used to refer to initialisms, which are combinations of letters representing a longer phrase. | | | For example, CRT is an initialism for cathode ray tube. | | | Newsgroups, chat rooms, and e-mail have spawned a rich set of acronyms and initialisms for common phrases. |
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http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/A/acronym.html
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| | Articles - Cc |
| | This page expands a two-character combination which might be any or all of: an abbreviation, an acronym, an initialism, a word in English, or a word in another language. | | | Look up CC, cc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
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http://www.kimia-sains.com/articles/Cc
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| | Re: PCM (was: I am back) |
| | An example of an acronym that is not an initialism. | | | Consider "multiply and >>> accumulate" --> MAC >> >> >> But your example *IS* both an acronym and an initialism >> by the definition Mr. | | | >>> >>> >>> but not every acronym is an initialism. |
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http://www.talkaboutsoftware.com/group/alt.os/messages/5352.html
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| | WTF - TheBestLinks.com - Acronym, Abbreviation, Initialism, Internet slang, ... |
| | An abbreviation for "What the fuck?" in Internet slang. | | | WTF, Acronym, Abbreviation, Initialism, Internet slang, NetBSD, United Kingdom... | | | WTF - TheBestLinks.com - Acronym, Abbreviation, Initialism, Internet slang,... |
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http://www.thebestlinks.com/WTF.html
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| | HTML is not an acronym... - saila.com |
| | ” while an initialism could use this: “ | | | Where the guidelines are unclear is on what to do after that initial reference. | | | —among many others—defines as an abbreviation that “consists of the initial letters of a series of words, pronounced in sequence.” Like acronyms, initialisms have word-like qualities, and can take affixes (e.g. |
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http://www.saila.com/usage/acronym
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| | Major/Minor Examples |
| | The mining review changes to The mining and industry review | | | Under the pre2002 rules, change from full form to initialism and vice versa was major but full form to an abbreviated form (and vice versa) was minor; it was therefore necessary to distinguish between an abbreviation and an acronym/initialism when deciding whether the change was minor. | | | Under the 2002 rules, it doesn't matter whether the name is in the form of an abbreviation or an acronym/initialism; a change from either of these to the full form, and vice versa, is MINOR. |
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http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/Orbis2Manual/majorminorexamples.htm
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| | The Mavens' Word of the Day |
| | An acronym is used for a word formed from the initial letters of the words (or main words) in a series of words, when the resulting word is pronounced as a word. | | | An initialism is used for a word formed from the initial letters of the words (or main words) in a series of words, when the resulting word is not pronounced as a word, but as individual letters spelled out. | | | I always thought that acronym was defined as a type of abbreviation that could be pronounced, e.g. |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980825
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| | acronym - Wiktionary |
| | An abbreviation formed by (usually initial) letters taken from a word or series of words, and which is itself pronounced as a word. | | | The second sense is often criticized by commentators who prefer the term initialism for abbreviations that are not pronounced like an ordinary word. | | | Category:Abbreviations, Acronyms and Initialisms - a list of all abbreviated forms |
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Acronym
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| | Acronyms and initialisms |
| | An acronym is a word that is formed from the initial letters of other words; e.g. | | | An acronym is a word that is formed from the initial letters of other words and is pronounced as a word, not spelled out one letter at a time; e.g. | | | Distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms in this way is by no means universal. |
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http://www.betterwritingskills.com/tip-w001.html
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| | TOAD - The Open Acronym Database |
| | Unlike many other online acronym databases, this one features language and category separation, as well as cross references between related or equivalent acronyms. | | | If you have several acronyms you wish to add to the database, it can be a lengthy process to add them one by one using the submission form. | | | The file should have separate columns for the acronym, expansion and description (see the submit form for details), and cross references if you need it. |
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http://toad.schreinerland.com
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| | Rane Professional Audio Reference (A) |
| | The requirement of forming a word is what distinguishes an acronym from an abbreviation (or initialism as it is also called). | | | The ratio of attenuation and crosstalk in a cable, i.e., a measure of the difference between the received signal magnitude vs. the leaked crosstalk signal. | | | acronym A word formed from the first letters of a name, such as laser for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging. |
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http://www.rane.com/par-a.html
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| | X11 First indicator Value 2 |
| | The heading may contain a parenthetical qualifier or may be an acronym or initialism. |
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http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/Bib1905.htm
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| | Working Group on Cataloging - Minutes |
| | With the coming of the year 2000, many such conferences are now appearing with the full form of the year instead of the abbreviated form. | | | The acronym or initialism would be qualified in the heading with "(Conference)". | | | This change would avoid the necessity of creating new headings for each meeting, and would also have the advantage of allowing one heading to be used for both monographic and serials cataloging. |
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http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/WGC/WGC001213.html
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| | Web Standards Group - Ten Questions for Tommy Olsson |
| | Certain abbreviations are spelled-out by some, and read as words by others. | | | Limiting ACRONYM to abbreviated forms that can be pronounced as words is not as easy as it may seem, either. | | | This is the common dictionary definition of 'acronym.' But only a few paragraphs further down, they seem to be using the term 'acronym' as it is used in daily American parlance: for initialisms (abbreviations made up by the initial letters from consecutive words, like 'FBI'). |
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http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/tommy-olsson.cfm
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: AN: ANF |
| | The acronym (or initialism) ANF can refer to several things:ANF is the NYSE symbol for the company Abercrombie & FitchANF can refer to atrial natriuretic factorANF can refer to antinuclear factor, a blood test that is... |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/A/AN/ANF
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| | Radar - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia |
| | Jamming is considered an active interference source, since it is initiated by elements outside the radar and in general unrelated to the radar signals. | | | The term has since entered the English language as a standard word, radar, losing the capitalization in the process. | | | The use of radio waves to detect "the presence of distant metallic objects via radio waves" was first implemented in 1904 by Christian Hülsmeyer, who demonstrated the feasibility of detecting the presence of ships in dense fog and received a patent for radar as Reichspatent Nr. |
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http://www.timesharetalk.co.uk/wiki.asp?k=Radar
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| | Computer Knowledge - Computer Terms Main Page |
| | An acronym was originally a pronounceable word formed from the initial letter or letters of the constituent words, such as RADAR, from RAdio Detection And Ranging, while an initialism refers to an abbreviation pronounced as the names of the individual letters, such as XHTML. | | | Welcome to the CKnow knowledge base of acronyms and terms. | | | Many pages have "More Information" links on them as CKnow is not attempting to come up with the definitive, complete reference for any given topic. |
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http://cknow.com/ckinfo
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| | AACR2 2002--Updating Loose Leafs |
| | Access to this form is important so that non-catalogers can find the record. | | | Give a note/access point for the acronym or initialism. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/ir/updatingll_02_files/slide0034.htm
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| | BIGpedia - XUL - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | While XUL is not a public standard, it reuses many existing standards and technologies, including CSS, JavaScript, DTD and RDF, which makes it relatively easy to learn for people with a background in web programming and design. | | | The acronym is pronounced zool, to rhyme with "cool" (see below). |
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http://www.bigpedia.com/encyclopedia/XUL
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| | A sentence may NOT begin with an acronym or initialism, even if it has been previously defined. |
| | A sentence may NOT begin with an acronym or initialism, even if it has been previously defined. | | | STM topographic images are correlated with X-ray crystallographic data. | | | To image the surface of thin films of a superconducting crystal, Yazdani's group uses a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope (STM) that they built at Illinois. |
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http://www.physics.uiuc.edu/Education/398IPR/Lectures/Abbreviations/tsld005.htm
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| | Title changes (major change in title proper) |
| | a part of the title switches from an acronym or initialism to the full form (or vice versa). | | | Representation of the same name is changed (e.g., from full form to acronym, in the fullness of the hierarchy presented, variant form [not a change in name] used). | | | Any of the first five words of the title (minus initial article) are deleted, changed, or reordered, or when new words are added to the title, unless the change is among the minor change exceptions (see Minor Changes … below). |
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http://library.tulane.edu/~techserv/MajorMinorchanges.html
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| | Category Acronym |
| | For more info, see How do Wiki Categories work. | | | Index to all pages on this Wiki describing an acronym or initialism, such as ACID, BNF, CGI or XML. | | | Search - Recent changes - 219 References - About Wikit - Go to The Tcler's Wiki - Help |
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http://wiki.tcl.tk/2562
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| | TSLL -- v. 28, no. 4 -- June 2003 -- Description and Entry |
| | To define the functional requirements of authority records, continuing the work initiated by FRBR. | | | Full form of title and acronym or initialism in the chief source of information | | | Always record the acronym/initialism as other title information, and always give it as a title added entry. |
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http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/tsll/28-04/desc.htm
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| | AACR2 2002--Impact on integrating remote access e-resouces |
| | •12.1B2 "When the title appears in full and in the form of an acronym or initialism in the chief source of information [i.e., same source], choose the full form as the title proper."
•LCRI: Do not change any existing records created before Dec. 1, 2002
| | | Note added emphasis– don't get carried away here by rejecting the full form that is prominent on the home page of a resource if you find an acronym somewhere else– this is only for those cases where both forms are presented in the same source. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/ir/AACR2rev_dr02_files/slide0017.htm
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| | re: adjYour adjDaily nCup prOf adjAkWTF - The Daily WTF |
| | Not that anyone cares, but when I do a few searches for "acronym vs abbreviation" or "acronym vs initialism", the results usually* say an acronym is a special type of abbreviation that can be pronouced as a word itself. | | | [quote user="Anonymous"]Not that anyone cares, but when I do a few searches for "acronym vs abbreviation" or "acronym vs initialism", the results usually* say an acronym is a special type of abbreviation that can be pronouced as a word itself. | | | For example LASER stands for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation, but it's not pronouced by spelling out the letters L, A, S, E, R one by one. |
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http://thedailywtf.com/AddPost.aspx?PostID=22451&Quote=True
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| | :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: |
| | ---- ''See also '''TA''', an abbreviation, Acronym and initialism acronym, or Acronym and initialism initialism that may refer to a number of things, including:'' *Teaching assistant *Territorial Army *Tiberian Adventure *Total Annihilation *Tabor Academy *Transactional analysis :rice paddy in Japanese. |
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http://www.mauspfeil.net/ta.html
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| | Dui Fines |
| | DUI is a three letter acronym (or initialism) that may stand for: |
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http://www.wwwtln.com/finance/65/dui-fines.html
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| | Is it a Title Change |
| | Acronym or initialism vs. full name [example: “OG”] | | | Generic term and issuing body changes it’s name | | | Addition, deletion, or rearrangement of the name or corporate body |
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http://library.boisestate.edu/serials/Procedures/misc/titlechange.htm
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| | Prescribed sources of information 12.0B3 Nonprint serials: refer to the appropriate subrule.0B LCRI 12.0B3: prescribed source of numbering for non-print: whole resource Area 1 Title and statement of responsibility 1.1B1 Introductory words AACR: Do not transcribe words that serve as an introduction and are not intended to be part of the title. | | | Other title information Transcribe when it fits one of these categories: Acronym/initialism appears with full form Statement of responsibility embedded Title proper consists solely of corporate body name This is the current LCRI/CONSER practice 12.1E1. | | | Disney presents Sleeping Beauty Welcome to NASA quest LC will apply only to electronic resources and popular serials 12.1B2 Full form vs. acronym/initialism AACR: When the title appears in full and in the form of an acronym or initialism on the chief source of information, choose the full form as the title proper. |
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http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/library/Departments/abc/AACR2-2002-AmendmentsHirons-ALA02.doc
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| | Army National Guard (ARNG) - Military Websites |
| | Use this extensive list of military acronyms and initialisms to help in your work. | | | Acronym and Initialism Finder - What is MOS? | | | Defend America - US Department of Defence news about the war on terrorism |
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http://dma.wi.gov/category.asp?linkcatid=137&linkid=42
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