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This list contains acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends that begin with the letter W. 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
What3words divides the world into a grid of 57 trillion 3-by-3-metre (10 ft × 10 ft) squares, each of which has a three-word address. The company says they do their best to remove homophones and spelling variations; [25] however, at least 32 pairs of English near-homophones still remain.
Most of the first broadcasting stations received randomly assigned three-letter call signs. However, in early 1922, due to the prospect of all the available three-letter call signs being used up, the government switched to four-letter calls that were sequentially assigned. Initially two different patterns were employed.
The last new three-letter call was assigned to station WIS (now WVOC) in Columbia, South Carolina on January 23, 1930. Since then, three-letter calls have only been assigned to stations, including FM (beginning in 1943) [1] and TV (beginning in 1946), [2] which are historically related to an AM station that was originally issued that call sign.
w’all: we all w’at: we at wanna: want to wasn’t: was not we’d: we had / we would / we did we’d’ve: we would have we’ll: we shall / we will we’re: we are we’ve: we have weren’t: were not whatcha: what are you what’d: what did what’ll: what shall / what will what’re: what are / what were what’s: what has / what is ...
The exact phrase three-letter acronym appeared in the sociology literature in 1975. [1] Three-letter acronyms were used as mnemonics in biological sciences, from 1977 [2] and their practical advantage was promoted by Weber in 1982. [3] They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. [4]
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The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...