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I think the p's and q's argument is most salient here. The apostrophe is used for the sake of clarity. While conventionally used for the possessive, the apostrophe is also used to indicate vernacular omissions and contractions, such as in the cases of "Ol' Dirty ***" or...

I've returned this thread to "regular" format, as the "question and answer" format can cause confusion, in a discussion of this kind, with a compound question.In response to the original question, I would agree with Forbes that in BrE books and academic journals, a...

Hi, Simply put, an acronym is an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word. eg FBI is an abbreviation. We pronounce each letter separately, thus eff bee eye eg NATO is an acronym. We pronounce it as a word naytoe, not as enn eh tee oh So, USMC is an abbreviation but not an acronym. best...

So, USMC for United States Marine Corps is both a abbreviation and also acronym? Can I say acronym is a special case of abbreviation since acronym is abbreviated and left with only initials?

acronym: just initials abbreviation: shortening (cut some of the final letters, etc) contraction: some of the middle letters can be removed too

What are the differences between abbreviation, contraction and acronym? I have looked up in a dictionary and here is what it says: Contraction: A word, as won't from will not, or phrase, as o'clock from of the clock, formed by omitting or combining some of the sounds of a longer...

Such contractions (not 'abbreviations') are used only to represent spoken pronunciation. Any but the most casual writing should employ the fully written-out forms: this is, these are, etc.

Disclaimer : The comments below are purely my opinion based on what I was taught, however I may be wrong --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Guest,your sentence doesn't require any apostrophes as all the words you...

What is proper? We saw Dad and Mom's new boat. (YES!) We saw Dad's and Mom's new boat (Wrong!) Joint possessives In the case of joint possession, i.e., when two or more people own something together, place the apostrophe or apostrophe s (‘s) only after the...

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