Us vs Initialism - What's the difference?
us | initialism |
(personal) me and at least one other person; the objective case of we .
(colloquial) me
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
As nouns the difference between us and initialism
is that us is while initialism is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.us
English
(wikipedia us)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Give us a look at your paper.
- Give us your wallet!
Quotations
* 1611 — 1:1 *: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us ...See also
* we * our * oursDeterminer
(en determiner)- It's not good enough for us teachers.
See also
* weEtymology 2
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter .Symbol
(head)Statistics
*Etymology 3
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(head)Usage notes
initialism
English
Noun
(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.