Thanks to all who have tried to answer this question.
"Initials" seems
weak to me, since it refers to the individual letters and not
the unit,
but it'll have to do. Back to crime.
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On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Don Cannon wrote:
> Someone asked about a more specific term for
abbreviations like ACLU
> and MLA. It's acronym, which is the word for words
composed of the
> first letter of the parts of a phrase. I was
surprised that Webster's
> 9th Collegiate used snafu as an example.
>
> Don
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