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added note about initialisms from WK article Acronym
There are no universal standards for the multiple names for such abbreviations or for their orthographic styling. Acronyms result from a word formation process known as blending, in which parts of two or more words are combined to form a new word.
{{NOTE}} "In everyday use, ''acronym'' is often applied to abbreviations that are technically '''initialisms''', since they are pronounced as separate letters."<ref name="Fowler2015">{{REFbook
|last=Fowler
|first=Henry Watson
|editor=Jeremy Butterfield
|title=Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AvmzBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16
|accessdate=2020-03-11
|edition=4th
|year=2015-06-01
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|isbn=978-0-19-966135-0
|page=16
|#archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200405220308/https://books.google.com/books?id=AvmzBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA16|archive-date=April 5, 2020|url-status=live
}}</ref>
Acronyms flourished especially from the 20th century onwards; the distinction between abbreviation and acronym has been steadily eroded and acronym is commonly used for several types of abbreviation.
{{REF}}
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