To Vladimir:
In English, there are many famous examples a person's initials being more than just one letter for the first name. Jos for Joseph so as not to be confused with Jonah or James. Wm for William so as not to be confused with Willard or Wilford. It's just as common to see them with periods after as not, although I've always seen them with spaces between the abbreviation and the surname. I have seen examples in business where the company name was abbreviated and no spaces used like BanCorp or CityBank or NexGen.
To Jonathan:
Technically, if a group of initials can be pronounced as a single word like NASA, then it is an acronym. If one pronounces the letters individually, then it's not an acronym, it's just a group of letters.
Wm Seán Glen
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2. Hebrew. A single initial is followed by a Geresh (05F3), a group of initials is marked with a Gershayim (05F4) before the last letter. By the way, these marks are not specific for acronyms, they mean in general "not a word". Sometimes, when the acronym is well known and pronounced as a word, the Gershayim is dropped.
Jony
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Some people with rare names like Vsevolod prefer two or more letters of their names to be shown in order not to be mixed up with frequent names like Vladimir, e.g. Vs.Safronov. It gives us N[n].[ ][N[n].[ ]]Nn…n.
Thank you in advance,
Vladimir Ivanov
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