Initialism
//ɪˈnɪʃəlɪzəm//
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The term BBC is an initialism for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The next most frequent source language was English, with neologistic compounds accounting for 15 etymologies, with 9 other English-based terms from a variety of word formation processes such as initialism and semantic extension.
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