People are quite often addressed in English-speaking countries by a set of initials, or by a single initial letter. The set of initials is associated by many with American business practice. In Graham Greene’s short story Men at Work...

In a written work, an initial is a letter at the beginning of a work, a chapter or a paragraph that is larger than the rest of the text. The word comes from the Latin initialis, which means standing at the beginning. It is often several lines in height...