Guide:Acronyms, Clippings & Initialisms

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Just like any other online community, there are many acronyms, clippings & initialisms used within the Growtopian community. This page lists some of the commonly used acronyms, clippings & initialisms.

Acronyms

An acronym is an abbreviation formed by the first letters or syllables of a series of words, and which is itself pronounced like a word.[1][2] For example, within the Growtopian community, "gaut" is an acronym made up of the first syllable of Gaia's Beacon and the initialism of Unstable Tesseract.

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P

Clippings

A clipping is a short form of a word created by removing syllables.[3] For example, within the Growtopian community, "stits" is the clipping of Surgical Stitches.

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C

F

G

H

L

M

R

S

V

Initialisms

An initialism is a term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.[4] For example, within the Growtopian community, "ut" is the initialism of Unstable Tesseract.

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C

D

E

F

G

  • gc > Guildcast, guild co-leader
  • ge > guild elder
  • gl > good luck, guild leader
  • gt > Growtopia

H

P

R

S

U

W

References

  1. ↑ https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/acronym
  2. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acronym
  3. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clipping
  4. ↑ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/initialism
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