Initialisms
Here is a nice discussion of the distinctions between abbreviations (like "won't" and "Tues."), acronyms (like "NATO" and "NASA"), and initialisms (like "MBA" and "NFL"):
http://lyberty.com/encyc/articles/abbr.html
Except that the article misspells "initialism" several times.
Weird, huh?
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