| Practice varies with regard to periods, with current usage increasingly in favor of omitting them, especially when the initialism consists entirely of capital letters. |
| In describing such abbreviations, the term initialism is inapplicable. |
| Also in 2005, UCL adopted a new corporate branding under which the name University College London was replaced by the simple initialism UCL in all external communications. |
| Pressed for an opinion after my first bite or two, I took refuge in the initialism I. C. P., Interesting Cultural Phenomenon. |
| Some dictionaries include additional senses equating acronym with initialism. |
| An acronym is a word group created in a similar way to an initialism but which is pronounced as a word. |
