Re: Not an acronymn....

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

It certainly is an abbreviation. It's just not an acronym or an
initialism (both of which are abbreviations). But Dossy indeed nailed
it; it's a numeronym. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM,  <mattgras -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> It's not an abreviation -- an abreviation would be a shortened form of the
> original word.
>
>
>
> Thanks, though, for identifying it as a homophone.

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