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

[Richard Jensen]

Neil,

Thanks for this info.

I started to write a note similar to John Bruner's, but then saw his.

Cheers,

Dick J

Richard Jensen, Professor
Department of Biology
Saint Mary’s College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Tel: 574-284-4674



John Clay Bruner wrote:
> 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
>>     
> ************************
>
> "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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