Hungarian Orthography - Abbreviations and Acronyms

Abbreviations and Acronyms

These two groups are distinguished by whether the shortened form is only used in writing (abbreviations) or in speech as well (acronyms). Acronyms may be pronounced with the name of their letters (e.g. OTP ‘National Savings Bank’ ), or if possible, in full (MÁV ‘Hungarian State Railways’ ). The article preceding these forms is always adapted to the spoken form.