Not only did the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) and their political party, The New Jewel Movement (NJM), have a proclivity for using acronyms or short-hand letters for what was meant, but they were in communication with Cuba and the Soviet Union. Cuba and the Soviet Union were no shirkers from using acronyms either.

One finds a useful break-down of types of acronyms, initialisms, and pseudo-blends from the online Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. There are also symbols, and just plain old shorthand. Within the site pages listed at the bottom you will find these definitions by Wikipedia -

Acronym = an abbreviation pronounced as a series of constituent letters, e.g., SARS = severe acute respiratory syndrome

Initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc

Pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters means that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words) as in: UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Symbol = (none of the above, representing and pronounced as something else; for example: MHz - Megahertz)

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