10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACRONYMANIA»
Discover the use of
acronymania in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
acronymania and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
A look at acronyms chronicles their history, shows readers how to coin their own acronyms, lists current acronyms and their meanings, and unveils clever examples of acronyms that do not exist but should. Original.
Healthspeak: Acronymania. rhe modern health care industry has acquired a
vocabulary of its own. Perhaps the trickiest aspect of the language of "
Healthspeak" is its dependence on acronyms. The following glossary is intended
as a quick- ...
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Letters and bytes: Sociotechnical studies of distance education
Acronymania: LO, DRM, and the IEEE LTSC DREL This article is a continuation
of earlier empirical research exploring so called Learning Objects in education.
15 A Learning Object is a standardized digital container that holds different types
of ...
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Lexical Change in Present-day English: A Corpus-based Study ...
Some observers have even complained about "acronymitis" and "acronymania".
In turn, such critics have been accused of suffering "acronymaphobia".5 It is
important to note, however, that the formation of the acronym not only has
advantages ...
READER FORUM INDEX TITLES PAGE MONTH Acronymania 111 Jan Afars
and Issas 112 Nov AFNORTH 2 Sep Africa 112 Feb American Military Profession
2 May Battle of Waterloo, The 111 Oct Book Review 112 Jul Chemical Warfare ...
This epic is ACRONYMANIA, A Celebratory Roundup Of Nomenclature Yielding
Mischief: Abbreviations, Neologisms, Initialisms, Acronyms. You will find in this
hallowed volume such constructions as: RALPH: Royal Organization for the ...
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Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 ...
William Safire, "Acronymania: Creating Weird Titles to Spell Catchy Words," New
York Times Magazine, 24 February 2002, 13. The full title of the USA PATRIOT
Act is the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools ...
In the acronymania of government, LOCs stands for Lines of Communications –
routesalong which suppliesand troops travel. The little arrowsshow Bashir's
enemy has LOCscoming at him likelances at his heart. “Stunned, arewe, Brennan
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'Closing the Gap': American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, ...
Piitz identified Pynchon's ' expanding acronymania' as a strategy of reader
irritation. The author's creating ever new riddles with his acronyms echoes the
philosophical background and the narrato- logical tactics of Pynchon's paranoid ...
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Tyrannosaurus Lex: The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, ...
(For a good scholarly book on acronyms, see Don Hauptman's Acronymania.)
One can find initialisms for American companies in the nineteenth century, as
when the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac (a railroad connecting Richmond
, ...
