For example, let's say your name is Broderick Emmerson Anthony Nash, but your friends find your name a mouth full to say. Plus, it takes them an eternity to say. So, they take the first letter of each word in your name: B, E, A, N, and they form a new word that they start calling you by. This new word is Bean. And that is what you are know as by your friends for the rest of your life. That is an acronym.
Businesses use acronyms also to shorten longer names. I know you've heard of NASA. Well, NASA is an acronym for, "National Aeronautics and Space Administration." Don't you think it is much easier to say the shortened acronym, NASA, than the whole long name?
The next time you are playing with your friends or taking a road trip in the car with your family, see what acronyms you can come up with from longer names or titles you see.
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