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A reader seeing only a "laundry list" of AKA-names will still be unable to determine the specific description of the topic when displayed in the search-engine results. Hence, deferring the list of AKA-names until later on the page allows the top 20–30 words to directly describe the subject in a quick, concise summary of the key concepts about ...
a.k.a. or AKA: also known as: Should only be used in small spaces, otherwise use the full phrase. It does not need to be linked. Use the {} template on first occurrence on the page to provide a mouse-over tooltip explaining the meaning: a.k.a. Should not be written aka. AM: amplitude modulation: am or a.m. ante meridiem
It doesn't even list the common alternatives (a.k.a., A.K.A., AKA). The same is currently true of Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, although I hadn't noticed how long this has been true. ~ Jeff Q 15:04, 7 June 2007 (UTC) MoS is not bound by what any particular offline style guides say; we take it into consideration, but no more.
In the English language, an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person's name, e.g.: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Mx, Sir, Dame, Dr, Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person's name, as in Mr President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.
On Wikipedia, most acronyms are written in all capital letters (such as NATO, BBC, and JPEG).Wikipedia does not follow the practice of distinguishing between acronyms and initialisms; unless that is their common name, do not write word acronyms, that are pronounced as if they were words, with an initial capital letter only, e.g., do not write UNESCO as Unesco, or NASA as Nasa.
The word "pressed" connotes a certain weight put on someone. It could mean being upset or stressed to the point that something lives in your mind "rent-free," as Black Twitter might say. Or, in ...
Other languages may use other conventions; for example, Italian writes the nickname after the full name followed by detto "called" (e.g., Salvatore Schillaci detto Totò), in Spanish the nickname is written in formal contexts at the end in quotes following alias (e.g. Alfonso Tostado, alias «el Abulense»), in Portuguese the nickname is ...
Emojis are relatively new to internet slang, [23] and are much like emoticons in the way that they convey messages in a visual way. However, while emoticons create an image using characters from the keyboard, emojis are a whole new level of communication and slang that portray messages in small cartoons.