[Taxacom] Family acronyms are not acronyms but are abbreviations.

[John Clay Bruner]

Quoting "Neil Snow" <neil.snow at bishopmuseum.org>:
> With apologies; try this URL instead of the previous one (thanks to
> Colorado Native Plant Society for hosting it):
> http://www.conps.org/pdf/Plant%20Keys/ACROS.pdf
> NS
> Neil Snow, Ph.D.
> Botanist
> Herbarium Pacificum (BISH)
> Bishop Museum
> 1525 Bernice Street
> Honolulu, Hawai'i, 96817, U.S.A.
> phone: (808) 847-8226
> fax: (808) 847-8252
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"ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLANT FAMILIES WITH ASSOCIATED ACRONYMS (2009)"

They are not ACRONYMS, but they are abbreviations. An acronym is a  
word formed by the first letter or several letters of a string of  
words.   RADAR and SCUBA are acronyms. Your abbreviations are not all  
acronyms. For example, Balanitaceae BLT, Balanopaceae BLN,  
Balanophoraceae BNP, Balsaminaceae BLS, are not acronyms.  They are  
not words. They do not have both vowels and consonants.


         John
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