Acronyms

[Jean Marie]

F- friends
R- relatives
A- acquaintances
N- neighbors

Do you have any acronyms that you just learned or want to share?

[LI Roe]

I found a couple online - HOPE - Hold On Pain Ends
FAITH - Forwarding All Issues To Heaven

Roe

[Poinciana]

Those are good ones, ladies!

I love acronyms and their close relatives, which are Initialisms.(My thoughts on acronyms are taking the first initial of a series of words, capitalize the resulting word and it enters our vocabulary as a new word which is descriptive of the words that formed it. Whereas an initialism is the abbreviation of a series of words, such as FBI for Federal Bureau of Investigation,, but it doesn't form an easily pronounced new word, unless you could go a stretch and use Feebie for an FBI federal agent.)


Some of my fave acronyms are.....

POTUS (po tuss) President of the United States

SCUBA Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

SONAR Sound Navigation and Ranging

RADAR Radio Detection and Ranging

RAM Random Access Memory

NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration

[Poinciana]

Another very good acronym is NASCAR, National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. An acronym you'll probably hear a dozen times a day around my house!

[bristol2002]

neat to see...Racing has been in my family for many years. My son is in his second year of late model racing. He started racing a street stock car then moved to an IMCA car for several years...won The state, local, national championship in 2007. He races in the Midwest area i.e. Wisconsin

[imalefty]

Few will recognize this acronym as it is a local one in my area. BLD-Budd Lake Diner. It's a great place to meet for tasty food at reasonable prices. Around here we say Meet you at BLD!

[Jean Marie]

PRAYER - Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources

[Poinciana]

PRAYER - Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources

What an excellent example of an ACROSTIC. Very inspiring, too.

The Old Hebrew Testament is filled with acrostics, most notably Psalm 119. And Psalm 145, which is recited every day in Jewish prayers.

There is a terrific website which is primarily meant for teaching kids, but I find it a fun place to visit. How to Write an Acrostic Poem - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com

Have a lovely day, everyone.

[Jean Marie]

What an excellent example of an ACROSTIC. Very inspiring, too.

The Old Hebrew Testament is filled with acrostics, most notably Psalm 119. And Psalm 145, which is recited every day in Jewish prayers.

There is a terrific website which is primarily meant for teaching kids, but I find it a fun place to visit. How to Write an Acrostic Poem - Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com

Have a lovely day, everyone.

Hi Poinciana,
Can you give us an example of an acrostic in Psalm 119 and Psalm 145?

The Acrostic- Prayer - Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources - is in our Bible Study Book.

Jean Marie

[Poinciana]

Hi Poinciana,
Can you give us an example of an acrostic in Psalm 119 and Psalm 145?

The Acrostic- Prayer - Prayer Releases All Your Eternal Resources - is in our Bible Study Book.

Jean Marie

Thanks for sharing your source. I'm not a Hebrew scholar so I can't read the Hebrew. It is my understanding that the entire Psalm (119 and 145) are the acrostic. They are what are called alphabetic acrostics. The first word of each stanza...chapters in the rest of the Bible, but called stanzas in Psalms because each Psalm is a song .... anyway, the first words will spell out the letters in the Hebrew alphabet in their correct order. I can search for a reference for that. It would improve my memory and explain better than I can. Would you like that?