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WTF is an acronym??
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All acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are an acronym.
Shortening "Avenue" to "Ave." is an abbreviation, because it is the shortened version of the word, but it's not an acronym, because AVE is not a new word comprised of the first letters of a phrase.