Today I'm going to tell you about a suffix that shows any prejudice and neglect. This is -ism. There are so many -isms in various areas of our life, here are some of them: shortism (neglect people who are small), ageism (prejudice against people who are in their -ties), and the following are for you to guess - ableism, alphabetism. Give me your answers to the last ones!
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Alphabetism
From: Glottopedia
An alphabetism is an abbreviation that takes the first letter of each word of the base expression (like an acronym), and is pronounced by spelling out each letter.
Examples
Examples are EU [i: ju:], IBM [ai bi: em], ALT [ei el ti:] (though the latter is also sometimes taken as an acronym and pronounced [o:lt]).
Most first-letter abbreviations in English and other languages using the Latin script are alphabetisms. In Hebrew and Arabic, alphabetisms do not exist at all, and they obviously do not exist in languages with non-alphabetic writing systems.
Synonym
initialism
Sometimes alphabetisms are not distinguished from acronyms and are simply called "acronyms".
You are nearly right but also there's another meaning of this word. Alphabetism is a prejudice against people whose surnames start with the last letters of the alphabet - Wilkinson, and so on.
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