| An acronym is a word group created in a similar way to an initialism but which is pronounced as a word. |
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| It is usually acceptable to start a sentence with an acronym or initialism that begins with a capital letter. |
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| Pressed for an opinion after my first bite or two, I took refuge in the initialism I. C. P., Interesting Cultural Phenomenon. |
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| Practice varies with regard to periods, with current usage increasingly in favor of omitting them, especially when the initialism consists entirely of capital letters. |
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| As the names of many Vietnamese letters are disyllabic, it would be less convenient to pronounce an initialism by its individual letters. |
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| Does the name lend itself to an acronym or initialism that is easy to say, use, and remember? |
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| When it's pronounced not as a word but letter by letter, it's an initialism, as the periods indicate. |
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| The initialism PC is being published more and more nowadays, albeit only one 1990s dictionary defines it. |
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| John Edward Haynes lists the various types of fictitious names as pseudonyms, anonyms, anagrams, phraseonyms, titlenyms, and initialism. |
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| Some dictionaries include additional senses equating acronym with initialism. |
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| In describing such abbreviations, the term initialism is inapplicable. |
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| 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. |
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| During your association's major meetings, arrange to have your name, initialism, or acronym spelled out in a skyscraper by blacking out certain lights at night. |
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| Initialism, an older word than acronym, seems to be too little known to the general public to serve as the customary term standing in contrast with acronym in a narrow sense. |
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