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All About Abbreviations

Word Matters

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word matters is produced by marian webster in collaboration with new england public media. On each episode, marianwebster, editors, amon sha, peter sakalowski and i explore some aspect of the english language from the nary's vantage point. Coming up on word matters, all about abbreviations. When is an abbreviation an acronym? And when is an achronym also an initialism? I'll explain it all.

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