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Unlocking the mystery of 'ever words' and Latin abbreviations. Juna.

Grammar Girl Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing

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Should I Sell Out or Read Out?

For most Latin abbreviations in English, like at all, we don't say the whole thing. We say the abbreviation that we write as if it were a word as an acronym. An initialism is an abbreviation you pronounce by spelling out the letters. Both initialisms and acronyms are included in the bigger category of abbreviations.

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