Talk:Ranked game/@comment-99.103.211.59-20111006232446/@comment-83.244.158.158-20120227144945

Acronyms and initialisms are themselves abbreviations by definition. Acronyms are words that are pronounced, for example: NASA, NATO, Laser, Radar. Initialisms are not pronounced as a word but as individual letters, for example: FBI, USA, IRA.