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This tag is for questions seeking or discussing a term (or terms) belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject (e.g. linguistics, mathematics, physics, biology, finance, theatre, music, philosophy, astronomy, medical, nautical etc.). Consider adding [single-word-requests] and [phrase-requests] tags also if relevant.

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Are initialisms that sound like existing words in English still called initialisms? Or are t...

An initialism has come into common parlance as a word on its own. An initialism is a word made from the first letters of each word in a phrase. Unlike acronyms, initialisms cannot be spoken as words: …
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Is there a term for a compound word that may be split in multiple places? [duplicate]

The only example I can currently think of is from the Spawn comic book. The compound word “Hellspawn” may be split two different ways: Hell spawn (creature born of Hell) Hell’s pawn (a minor figure …
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