Talking sense about acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and neologisms

Talking sense about acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, and neologisms

Acronyms are cool, but they’re not all equal. The copy editors’ rule that once you introduce an acronym or initialism you must always use it in subsequent text, is bullshit. I’m here to propose a better way to think about acronyms. There are terms that are cumbersome to write and cumbersome to read. To help…