In school, you learned to put a definite article, “the,” or an indefinite article, “a” or “an” before a noun. Initialisms are abbreviations that you pronounce as a string of letters. OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) An acronym is an abbreviation you can pronounce as an actual word. ![]() For example, I have seen both ‘a Law Society of Upper Canada form’ and ‘an LSUC form.’ Are they both written correctly?”īizWritingTip response: Before I begin to deal with this issue, let’s discuss acronyms versus initialisms. BizWritingTip reader: “I would like to know whether to use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before an acronym.
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