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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter T. For the purposes of this list: acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as if it were a word, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome , pronounced to rhyme with cars
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.
TLA—Three-Letter Acronym; TLD—Top-Level Domain; TLS—Thread-Local Storage; TLS—Transport Layer Security; TLV—Type—length—value; tmp—temporary; TNC—Terminal Node Controller; TNC—Threaded Neill-Concelman connector; TPF—Transaction Processing Facility; TPM—Trusted Platform Module; TROFF—Trace Off; TRON—Trace On
In English spelling, the three-letter rule, [n 1] or short-word rule, [2] is the observation that one- and two-letter words tend to be function words such as I, at, he, if, of, or, etc. [3] As a consequence of the rule, "content words" tend to have at least three letters. In particular, content words containing fewer than three phonemes may be ...
(v.) to bathe, or give a bath to, example have a bath (US: take a bath meaning bathe) (n.) plumbing fixture for bathing *(US: bathtub) (n.) the act of bathing (n.) a bathroom (esp. a half bath which has a sink and toilet but no shower stall or bathtub, or a 3/4 bath which has a sink, toilet, and shower stall, but no bathtub) bathroom
It is common to take more than just one initial letter from each of the words composing the acronym; regardless of this, the abbreviation sign gershayim ״ is always written between the second-last and last letters of the non-inflected form of the acronym, even if by this it separates letters of the same original word.
Note that some words contain an ae which may not be written æ because the etymology is not from the Greek -αι-or Latin -ae-diphthongs. These include: In instances of aer (starting or within a word) when it makes the sound IPA [ɛə]/[eə] (air). Comes from the Latin āër, Greek ἀήρ. When ae makes the diphthong / eɪ / (lay) or / aɪ ...
[3] or they include words so obscure that the phrase is challenging to understand, such as "Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz", [3] in which cwm is a loan word from the Welsh language meaning an amphitheatre-like glaciated depression, vext is an uncommon way to spell vexed, and quiz is used in an archaic sense to mean a puzzling or eccentric ...