Gramogram

A gramogram or grammagram or letteral word is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "See you". They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations. They are commonly used as a component of cryptic crossword clues. A poem reportedly appeared in the Woman's Home Companion of July 1903 using many gramograms: it was preceded by the line "ICQ out so that I can CU have fun translating the sound FX of this poem". As of December 2016 neither spelling of the word appears in the online Oxford English Dictionary.

Gramogram

A gramogram or grammagram or letteral word is a letter or group of letters which can be pronounced to form one or more words, as in "CU" for "See you". They are a subset of rebuses, and are commonly used as abbreviations. They are commonly used as a component of cryptic crossword clues. A poem reportedly appeared in the Woman's Home Companion of July 1903 using many gramograms: it was preceded by the line "ICQ out so that I can CU have fun translating the sound FX of this poem". As of December 2016 neither spelling of the word appears in the online Oxford English Dictionary.