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This table of three-letter acronyms contains links to all letter-letter-letter combinations from AAA to DZZ, listed in the form [[{{letter}}{{letter}}{{letter}}]].. As specified at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Combining terms on disambiguation pages, terms which differ only in capitalisation are commonly combined into a single disambiguation page.
List of abbreviations in photography; List of glossing abbreviations (grammatical terms used in linguistic interlinear glossing) List of legal abbreviations; List of medical abbreviations; List of abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel; Reporting mark (owners of rolling stock and other railway equipment) List of style guide ...
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is as the phrase suggests an abbreviation consisting of three letters. The abbreviation for TLA, TLA, has a special status among abbreviations and to some is humorous since abbreviations that are three-letters long are very common and TLA is, in fact, a TLA. TLA is autological.
Abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms are likely to be ambiguous, needing disambiguation. Thus abbreviations should usually be expanded (see Naming conventions (abbreviations) ) beforehand. For two- and three-letter combinations, there is generally a list detailing a few or many possible uses.
The only thing I could find was from Wikipedia's article on the letter R: "In calendars, R is often used as an abbreviation for Thursday instead of T, to avoid confusion with Tuesday" Blorg 13:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC) maybe because Thursday sounds like "R's day". don't take this seriously. hehe. -janyu86 I say it oughtta be "MTWrFS."
Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and Romeo R; Conventional abbreviations for US cities and states: for example, "New York" can indicate NY and "California" CA or CAL. The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example:
"Thursday" (Pet Shop Boys song), a song by the Pet Shop Boys "Thursday", a song by Morphine from Cure for Pain and also used in the soundtrack to the film Beavis and Butt-head "Thursday", a song by Country Joe and the Fish from I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die , 1967