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Linguist David Wilton in Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends claims that "forming words from acronyms is a distinctly twentieth- (and now twenty-first-) century phenomenon. There is only one known pre-twentieth-century [English] word with an acronymic origin and it was in vogue for only a short time in 1886.
something’s: something has / something is so’re (informal) so are (colloquial) so’s (informal) so is / so has so’ve (informal) so have that’ll: that shall / that will that’re (informal) that are that’s: that has / that is that’d: that would / that had there’d: there had / there would there’ll: there shall / there will there ...
Example of 15th-century Latin manuscript text with scribal abbreviations. An abbreviation (from Latin brevis ' short ') [1] is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym), or crasis.
Whatever the reason, words—something the two of you haven't had in ages—matter. "If you want to continue a relationship with someone who you haven't spoken to in a while, ...
In contradistinction to "i.e." and "e.g.", "viz." is used to indicate a detailed description of something stated before, and when it precedes a list of group members, it implies (near) completeness. Example: "The noble gases, viz. helium, neon, argon, xenon, krypton and radon, show a non-expected behaviour when exposed to this new element."
A numeronym is a word, usually an abbreviation, composed partially or wholly of numerals.The term can be used to describe several different number-based constructs, but it most commonly refers to a contraction in which all letters between the first and last of a word are replaced with the number of omitted letters (for example, "i18n" for "internationalization"). [1]
OK (/ ˌ oʊ ˈ k eɪ / ⓘ), with spelling variations including okay, okeh, O.K. and many others, is an English word (originating in American English) denoting approval, acceptance, agreement, assent, acknowledgment, or a sign of indifference.