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单词 initialese
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initialesen.

/ɪnɪʃəˈliːz/
Etymology: < initial adj. 2 + -ese suffix.
Abbreviation by using the initial letters of the words to be shortened.
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initialism1899
acronym1940
initialese1955
1955 Amer. Speech 30 110 In a dinner speech to the National Institute of Social Sciences given in New York in November, 1952..Mr Lovett frankly advocated the convenience of what he called initialese, a system of using initials and contractions, in order to save time.
1961 Engineering 17 Nov. 654 ASLE is initialese for American Society of Lubrication Engineers.
1962 Guardian 31 Jan. 8/2 2,000-odd abbreviations listed in ‘International Initialese’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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