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What is an initialism?

What is an initialism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
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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.
It is usually acceptable to start a sentence with an acronym or initialism that begins with a capital letter.
The initialism PC is being published more and more nowadays, albeit only one 1990s dictionary defines it.
John Edward Haynes lists the various types of fictitious names as pseudonyms, anonyms, anagrams, phraseonyms, titlenyms, and initialism.
Pressed for an opinion after my first bite or two, I took refuge in the initialism I. C. P., Interesting Cultural Phenomenon.
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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