mcc4d ago

Imagine an "acronym" but instead of taking the first letter of each word, you took the entire first syllable of each word. I notice Japan, which incidentally has a syllabary, seems to create this sort of "acronym" fairly often.

Is there a word, like a linguistics word, for this type of syllabic "acronym"?

Show threadanne.💫4d ago
@mcc Portmanteau. :)
Show threadKelson3d ago
@ann3nova @mcc Isn't a portmanteau usually the beginning of one word and the end of another?
Show threadmcc3d ago
@kelson @ann3nova Yes, but I think if someone called "first syllables of both word" a portmanteau they'd probably get away with it because portmanteaus are mostly about feel
Show threadKelson
@mcc @ann3nova yeah, probably
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