Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.Both initialisms and acronyms are formed to a certain extent from initial letters. Is there any difference between them? Illustrate your point with examples.
ACRONYMY IS THE PROCESS OF FORMING NEW WORDS BY JOINING THE INITIAL LETTERS OF NAMES OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS OR SPECIAL NOUN PHRASES AND TECHNICAL TERMS. WORD FORMED IN THIS WAY ARE CALLED INITIALISMS OR ACRONYMS, DEPENDING ON THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORDS. INITIALISMS ARE WORDS PRONOUNCED LETTER BY LETTER, SUCH AS VOA, BBC, TV. ACRONYMS ARE PRONOUNCED AS A NORMAL WORD, FOR EXAMPLE, AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME), TEFL (TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE). N-BOMB (NUCLEAR BOMB), G-MAN (GOVERNMENT MAN), ETC.
