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Please do separate acronyms—which, properly, are abbreviations you can pronounce, like AIDS, JAG, or RAF—from simple abbreviations.The former date back pretty much all the way. The latter, so far as I know, are a relatively recent thing.
How do you pronounce SPQR?
Blargh. Please reverse "former" and "latter" in my previous message.Apparently stuffing myself with Thanksgiving food wraps my brain in fluff.
I hope you had, and continue to have a happy thanksgiving. To clarify, SA and 'moot are ok, but something like RAF is something modern and thus not ok for Dwilight?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQRIt's old.
Can you find another example?Roman Empire isn't really BM's setting. And it's the sole pre-modern case that I was aware of in general, too.
Mmmm... Medieval Acronyms?... Yes, Abbreviations and Acronyms were used for almost all kind of things.I have a medieval crux with these inscriptions:__C____S__NDSMD__M____L__And with SMQLIVB - VRSNSMV all around.
Yes, but nobody would try to pronounce those as words. Which makes them period-appropriate abbreviations, not much-more-modern acronyms.