This section needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (January 2015) () Acronymy, like, is a linguistic process that has existed throughout history but for which there was little to no, conscious attention, or until relatively recent times. Like retronymy, it became much more common in the 20th century than it had formerly been. Ancient examples of acronymy (regardless of whether there was at the time to describe it) include the following: • Acronyms were used in Rome before the Christian era.

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For example, the official name for the Roman Empire, and the Republic before it, was abbreviated as ( Senatus Populusque Romanus). Inscriptions dating from antiquity, both on stone and on coins, use a lot of abbreviations and acronyms to save room and work. For example,, of which there was only a small set, were almost always abbreviated.

Common terms were abbreviated too, such as writing just 'F' for filius, meaning 'son of', a very common part of memorial inscriptions mentioning people. Grammatical markers were abbreviated or left out entirely if they could be inferred from the rest of the text.

• So-called were used in many Greek biblical manuscripts. The common words 'God' ( Θεός), 'Jesus' ( Ιησούς), 'Christ' ( Χριστός), and some others, would be abbreviated by their first and last letters, marked with an overline. This was just one of many kinds of conventional scribal abbreviation, used to reduce the time-consuming workload of the scribe and save on valuable writing materials. The same convention is still commonly used in the inscriptions on religious and the stamps used to mark the eucharistic bread in. • The early Christians in Rome, most of whom were Greek rather than Latin speakers, used the image of a fish as a symbol for in part because of an acronym— fish in Greek is ( ΙΧΘΥΣ), which was said to stand for Ἰησοῦς Χριστός Θεοῦ Υἱός Σωτήρ ( Iesous CHristos THeou hUios Soter: 'Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior').

This interpretation dates from the 2nd and 3rd centuries and is preserved in the of Rome. And for centuries, the Church has used the inscription over the crucifix, which stands for the Latin Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum ('Jesus the Nazarene, King of the Jews'). • The Hebrew language has a long history of formation of acronyms pronounced as words, stretching back many centuries.

The Hebrew Bible ('Old Testament') is known as ', an acronym composed from the Hebrew initial letters of its three major sections: (five books of Moses), (prophets), and (writings). Many rabbinical figures from the Middle Ages onward are referred to in rabbinical literature by their pronounced acronyms, such as and from the initial letters of their full Hebrew names: Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon and Rabbi Shlomo Yitzkhaki. During the mid- to late-19th century, an acronym-disseminating trend spread through the American and European business communities: abbreviating names in places where space was limited for writing—such as on the sides of (e.g., Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad → RF&P); on the sides of barrels and crates; and on and in the small-print newspaper stock listings that got their data from it (e.g., American Telephone and Telegraph Company → AT&T). Installing Age Of Empires 3 Art3.bar. Some well-known commercial examples dating from the 1890s through 1920s include (National Biscuit Company), (from S.O., from ), and (Sun Oil Company).

Another driver for the adoption of acronyms was modern warfare with its many highly technical terms. While there is no recorded use of military acronyms in documents dating from the (acronyms such as for 'Army of Northern Virginia' post-date the war itself), they had become somewhat common in and were very much a part even of the vernacular language of the soldiers during, who themselves were referred to as.