There is western red cedar roofing, there is white cedar roofing, there is Alaskan yellow cypress roofing which is also referred to as Alaskan yellow cedar roofing. Alaskan yellow cypress roofing, the best by far, is more expensive than the red cedar and the white cedar.
Summing up: 1  An abbreviation is a shortening of a word or a phrase. 2  An acronym is an abbreviation that forms a word. 3  An initialism is an abbreviation that uses the first letter of each word in the phrase (thus, some but not all initialisms are acronyms).
For example, NASA is an acronym for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.. Typically, an acronym consists of the first letter of most words. And, of, the, for are just some of the words that are not used in an acronym.Usually, the words used are capitalized. In some situations, maybe when you have one word in the name of something, you might use parts of that word.his form is distinct from an abbreviation as it must be pronounced as a word not a series of letters. An acronym is a collection of letters meaning something. ie ETA meaning estimated time of arrival. 12 people found this useful.