UNICEF এর পূর্ণরূপ কি?

UNICEF এর পূর্ণরূপ the United Nations Children's Fund. এটি জাতিসংঘের শিশু তহবিল।
নাম সংক্রান্ত একটু ঝামেলা আছে। UNICEF এর অফিসিয়াল লেখাটা পড়ে নিন -
UNICEF was established on 11 December 1946 by the United Nations to meet the emergency needs of children in post-war Europe and China. Its full name was the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund.
In 1950, its mandate was broadened to address the long-term needs of children and women in developing countries everywhere. UNICEF became a permanent part of the United Nations system in 1953, when its name was shortened to the United Nations Children's Fund.
However, UNICEF retained its original acronym.
অর্থাৎ, প্রথমে নাম ছিল United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, পরে নামকে আরো সংক্ষিপ্ত করে হয় United Nations Children's Fund.
কিন্তু নাম সংক্ষিপ্ত করলেও acronym টা ধরে রেখেছে। অর্থাৎ acronym এর কোন পরিবর্তন হয়নি।

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Acronym: The word acronym refers only to terms based on the initial letters of their various elements and read as single words.
Initialism: Initialism refers to terms read as a series of letters.
AIDS is an acronym, while HIV is an initialism.
When we abbreviate a word or phrase, we shorten it. Abbreviations can be formed from the first letters of the word or phrase. In such cases, we normally say them by spelling out each letter.
Personal Computer- PC
World Health Organisation- WHO
For some written abbreviations, individual letters or sounds from the word are used, although the word is always said in full:
Doctor- Dr,
Mister- Mr etc.