Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing seven editions of the booklet and at least three editions of the stamp case. Section 3 "How to go on with a Letter" contains nine rules for letter writing. Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing is an essay by Lewis Carroll on useful tips for composing, writing, mailing, and recording letters. The essay was published in 1890 by Emberlin and Son as a hardcover booklet consisting of 35 pages of text, followed by four pages of advertising, three pages of illustration, a stamp holder, and an illustration on the back cover. This
Three-letter acronym Three-letter acronym A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is an abbreviation, specifically an acronym, alphabetism, or initialism, consisting of three letters. These are usually the initial letters of the words of the phrase abbreviated, and are written in capital letters (upper case); three-letter abbreviations such as "etc." and "Mrs." are not three-letter acronyms, but "TLA" is a TLA (an example of an autological abbreviation). Most three-letter abbreviations are "initialisms": all the letters are pronounced as the names of letters, as in "APA" . Some are acronyms pronounced as a word; computed axial tomography, CAT, is almost always pronounced as