Suppose there's a website called "BSD Lounge & Cafe", where BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, the operating system. I want to make an acronym from that website's name. Is it BSDL&C or BL&C?
The acronym/initialism distinction is very rarely used in BrE; it was only when I came into daily contact on the web with AmE speakers that I came across it. ;-)
That distinction is made in morphology. I know that people use them as synonyms, but in reality they're not; it's worth noting that testmakers are fond of this distinction very much.
-Acronym: RAM. (it can be pronounced like a word)
-Abbreviation: MDB. (we have to pronounce each letter separately, as though we were spelling the word out)
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