In Vietnamese, which has an abundance of compound words, initialisms are very commonly used for both proper and common nouns. Examples include ' (', Ho Chi Minh City), ' (', high school), ' (', club), ' (', database), ' (', publisher), ' (', a general form of address), and ' (', Vietnamese Martyrs). Longer examples include ' (', Socialist Republic of Vietnam) and "" ("codice_1", Viet Cong). Long initialisms have become widespread in legal contexts in Vietnam, for example . It is also common for a writer to coin an ad hoc initialism for repeated use in an article.