Difference between <acronym> and <abbr>?

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moo picture moo · Jun 15, 2009 · Viewed 9.3k times · Source

Definitionally they seem the same, yet they are deemed dissimilar enough by the W3C to have separate tag definitions. What is the semantic difference between <acronym> and <abbr> in terms of linguistics, the HTML spec and interpretation.

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Ms2ger picture Ms2ger · Jun 16, 2009

Actually, the differences are so small that HTML5 decided to drop acronym in favour of abbr.

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