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"?

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@mcc Like Nabisco (for National Biscuit Company) or SoHo (South of Houston?) Some parts of the internet say "syllabic abbreviations" although obviously that should be shortened to syllabbs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/9bvo3g/til_words_like_nabisco_tribeca_fedex_and_haribo/

Jun 24 at 4:45pmWeb