| In describing such abbreviations, the term initialism is inapplicable. |
| As the names of many Vietnamese letters are disyllabic, it would be less convenient to pronounce an initialism by its individual letters. |
| Pressed for an opinion after my first bite or two, I took refuge in the initialism I. C. P., Interesting Cultural Phenomenon. |
| The initialism PC is being published more and more nowadays, albeit only one 1990s dictionary defines it. |
| When it's pronounced not as a word but letter by letter, it's an initialism, as the periods indicate. |
| Does the name lend itself to an acronym or initialism that is easy to say, use, and remember? |
