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Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Not to be overly pedantic, but an abbreviation is a "a shortened form of a written word or phrase used for brevity in place of the whole made commonly by omission of letters from one or more parts of the whole", and things like DEAR, FERPA, ACT, SLP, and ESEA are acronyms or initialisms.
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 1:56 PM, November 16, 2012
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At 2:23 PM, November 16, 2012
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->I would see abbreviation, exactly as you've defined it, as a more general term that encompasses acronyms and initialisms as well as things like abbrev. or op. cit. In fact, the idea of "omission of letters from one or more parts of the whole" seems calculated to include things like S[peech] L[anguage] P[athology] or A[ustralian] C[apital] T[erritory].
I think of that definition as being more for things like abbv or Dr. But I admit that you're right: you certainly do omit letters in acronyms!
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