Alphabetism vs Acronyms - What's the difference?
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An initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter-by-letter, such as "U.N."
* 2002 , Gunnel Tottie, An Introduction To American English ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=WWDUtK-f1tQC] Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 0631197923, page 118,
The ability to read an alphabet, a rudimentary form of literacy.
* 2001 , Ziony Zevit, The Religions of Ancient Israel: A Synthesis of Parallactic Approaches ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=db4hr55j0yYC] Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826463398, page 639,
Excessive reliance upon the alphabet or alphabetic structures.
* 2006 , Daniel Doron Silverman, A Critical Introduction to Phonology: Of Sound, Mind and Body ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=XWMKDj6umvgC] Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 0826486606, page 208,
Discrimination on the basis of the first letter of a name.
* 1978 November 13, (Annapolis, MD),
As nouns the difference between alphabetism and acronyms
is that alphabetism is an initialism: an abbreviation which is read letter-by-letter, such as "un" while acronyms is .As a verb acronyms is
(acronym).alphabetism
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Noun
(wikipedia alphabetism) (en noun)- Some alphabetisms' are written as if they weren't '''alphabetisms at all, like ''deejay'' for ''DJ'', ''disc jockey'', or ''emcee'' for ''MC , master of ceremonies.
- Some of the activities involved in ... corvée and military needs stimulated the spread of a certain type of minimal alphabetism for inventorying and most likely encouraged the development of a professional scribalism for record-keeping and book-keeping.
- The answer, I suggest, is that phonemism is rooted in alphabetism . Indeed, many linguists have suggested that there really is a /g/ phoneme at the end of 'fang' and other [?]-final words in English, except that they are not pronounced!
- The injustice of "alphabetism " is, of course, a thorn in the Zitser side, and he playfully promises to assign the problem to "alphabetically neutral" aides.