Associations to the word «Acrophony»

Adjective

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Wiktionary

ACROPHONY, noun. Naming letters in an alphabetic writing system using words whose initial sounds are represented by the respective letters.

Dictionary definition

ACROPHONY, noun. Naming a letter of the alphabet by using a word whose initial sound is the sound represented by that letter.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky