Re: Abbrevations and Acronyms

>What I call for, is an elaboration of the distinction
>between ABBR and ACRONYM in the spec.

In Italian the two things are different. An abbreviation is a truncated word.
For example
INTL for international, whereas an acronym is a term created by the initials of
more than
one word. For example ASAP for as soon as possible.

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