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  2. List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

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    cab Cabernet Sauvignon cabriolet caff (UK slang) café cal calorie (in combination, especially "lo-cal") Cal or Cali California Calcutta cam camera camouflage camo camouflage Can Canada or Canadian (in combination)

  3. Unwound - Wikipedia

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    Unwound was one of the most influential and vital bands of the '90s, and their last record was a masterpiece. You just don't know it yet. Unwound's influence will live on for a long time to come, and they were everything a band should be: independent and non-compromising in every aspect." [18]

  4. Unwound (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Unwound are an American post-hardcore band. Unwound may also refer to: "Unwound" (song), a 1981 song by George Strait; Unwound (Unwound album), 1995;

  5. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Abbreviations

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    Upon re-use in a long article, the template {} can be used to provide a mouse-over tooltip, giving the meaning of the acronym again without having to redundantly link or spell it out again. The template inserts a <abbr> tag into the page's HTML. Example: {{abbr|CIA|Central Intelligence Agency}}, giving: CIA. (This mouse-over will not work on ...

  6. List of English words that may be spelled with a ligature

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    Common form Ligature form Other forms Etymology amenorrhoea: amenorrhœa: amenorrhea : From Greek α (a) + μένόρροια (mēnorroia) amoeba: amœba: ameba (AmE—rare) Neo-Latin amoeba, from Greek ἀμοιβή (amoibē) apnea: apnœa: apnoea : Neo-Latin apnoea, from Greek απνοια (apnoia) coelacanth: cœlacanth

  7. Unwind (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Unwind is a dystopian novel by Neal Shusterman.It takes place in the United States in the near future. After the Second Civil War ("The Heartland War") was fought over abortion, a compromise was reached, allowing parents to sign an order for their children between the ages of 13 and 18 to be "unwound" — taken to "harvest camps" and dissected into their body parts for later use.

  8. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from back-formation , which proceeds by (pseudo-) morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source. [ 2 ]

  9. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    back-form from back-formation; bartend from bartender [5] beg from beggar [dubious – discuss] benefact from benefactor (and also the derived benefactee, cf. benefactor) berserk from berserker; bibliograph from bibliography; bicep from biceps (non-standard) [2] biograph from biography; bird (verb) from bird watcher; blockbust from blockbuster ...