1338: Acrostics Aug 10, 2018

There are a lot of similarities between initialisms and acronyms, but also there is sometimes confusion between those and acrostics too. While all of them take the first letters (or slightly more) from a series of words and create a mnemonic, what separates them are the outcomes. Initialisms are the simplest wherein only the letters are said, such as F.B.I. and acronyms make up their own words. Acrostics are very similar to acronyms in that it makes a word, but only one that already existed.