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Crossword Answers 26 August 2011

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TripeWryter

The setter of these crosswords (and very good crosswords they are, too) might like to know that CCCP is not an acronym.

They are initial letters.

An acronym consists of initial letters of words that then spell a word: examples are Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation), Seato, Zanu, Iata, Act, MoE, and so on and so on and so on….
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August 27, 2011 10:08am
Daigotsu

Pardon Tripewryter? Why is “Nato” a word but “CCCP” not?
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August 27, 2011 2:14pm
iMP

Is “USA” a word?
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August 27, 2011 9:37pm
TripeWryter

Daigotsu and iMP:

I suggest you go and look up a dictionary.
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August 27, 2011 9:58pm
iMP

Tripe, I think you’re missing the pt; that many abbreviations (or letter couplings) become acronyms (words) thru common usage, like “N.A.T.O.” and “U.S.A.”. CCCP is Russian for “U.S.S.R.” which is surely a word. Acronym comes from the Greek akron and onuma which means ‘name.’

Anzus, NZ, Oz, ABs, UK, EQC, MPs, etc, RSPCA, Chch…
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