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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Invalidated site: Interesting Facts - 6 Brand Names That Are Actually Acronyms. | Oct 12, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Interesting Facts - 6 Brand Names That Are Actually Acronyms. | Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: GovInfo - Abbreviations and Letter Symbols (PDF). | Oct 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: MLibrary Digital Collections - Deep Blue Repositories - Acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms (PDF). | May 09, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Sussex - Abbreviations. | Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Abbreviations and Acronyms. | Oct 24, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: PennState - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - John A. Dutton e. Education Institute - Abbreviations and Acronyms. | Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: ThoughtCo. - What Is an Abbreviation? | Feb 05, 2018 | ||
| Removed the statement regarding Tiro devising the character ampersand. | Jul 12, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Buzzle.com - Word Abbreviation. | Oct 01, 2013 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | May 08, 2012 | ||
| Media added. | Apr 21, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Sep 17, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 01, 1998 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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