[Taxacom] Family acronyms are not acronyms butare abbreviations.

[Richard Zander]

My wife suggests these are a kind of acronym based on syllabification,
though doubtless John B. is technically correct.

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Richard H. Zander 
Voice: 314-577-0276
Missouri Botanical Garden
PO Box 299
St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 USA
richard.zander at mobot.org
Web sites: http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/
and http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/bfna/bfnamenu.htm
Modern Evolutionary Systematics Web site:
http://www.mobot.org/plantscience/resbot/21EvSy.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of John Clay
Bruner
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:51 PM
To: Neil Snow
Cc: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Family acronyms are not acronyms butare
abbreviations.

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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