The document defines acronyms as abbreviations formed from the initial letters of words in a phrase, with each letter pronounced separately. It distinguishes between acronyms, which are pronounced as words, and initialisms, which are pronounced letter-by-letter. Examples are provided of different types of acronyms, including those containing non-initial letters or a mixture of initial and non-initial letters. The use of acronyms has increased with text messaging. Styles of writing acronyms include all capital letters or small capital letters for those over three letters.

2. ACRONYMS
-are sets of initials representing a
name,organization, or the like, with each
letter pronounced separetely.
-It is also referred to as “initialism”.
-it is an abbreviation formed from the
initial components in a phrase or a
word.
-also a type of word formation process
and they are viewed as a subtype of

3. ACRONYMS
-The term “acronym” is the name for a
word formed from the first letters of
each word in a phrase.
-INITIALISM refers to an abbreviation
formed from and used simply as, a
string of intials.
-Acronym is widely used to refer to any
abbreviation formed from initial
letters.

4. DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF ACRONYMS
1.Pronounced as a word,containing only initial letters
Ex.NATO:North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Laser:light amplification by stimulated emission of
radiation
2.Pronounced as a word,containing non-initial letters
Ex.Amphetamine:alpha-methyl-phenethylamine
Interpol-International Criminal Police Organization
Nabisco:National Biscuit Company

5. DIFFERENT EXAMPLES OF ACRONYMS
3.Pronounced as a word,containing a mixture of initial and non-
initial letters
Ex.AIDS-Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Radar-radio detection and ranging
4.Pronounced as a combination of spelling out and a word
Ex.CD-ROM:Compact Disc read-only memory
JPEG:Joint Photographic Experts Group
5.Acronym whose last abbreviated word is often redundantly
included
Ex.ATM machine:Automated Teller Machine machine
LCD display:Liquid Crystal Display display

6. CURRENT USE OF
ACRONYMS
-The use of acronyms has been further
popularized with the emergence of Short
Message Systems (SMS). To fit messages into
the 160-character limit of SMS, acronyms such
as "GF" (girl friend), "LOL" (laughing out loud),
and "DL" (download or down low) have been
popularized into the mainstream.

7. STYLES OF ACRONYMS
ACRONYM Caps Style:
1.All-Caps-The most common capitalization scheme
seen with acronyms is all-uppercase (all-caps),
except for those few that have linguistically taken on
an identity as regular words, with the acronymous
etymology of the words fading into the background
of common knowledge, such as has occurred with
the words scuba, laser, and radar
• 2. Small caps- are sometimes used to make the run
of capital letters seem less jarring to the reader. For
example, the style of some American publications,
including the Atlantic Monthly and USA Today, is to
use small caps for acronyms longer than three
letters; thus "U.S." and "FDR" in normal caps, but
"NATO" in small caps. The acronyms "AD" and "BC"
are often smallcapped as well, as in: "From 4004 BC
to AD 525".