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A large number of authors choose to use some form of initials in their name when it appears in their literary work. This includes some of the most famous authors of the 20th century – D. H. Lawrence, J. D. Salinger, T. S. Eliot, J. R. R. Tolkien, etc. – and also a host of lesser-known writers.
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet.A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
Team – (a) Together everyone achieves more; TEAMS – (a) The East African Marine System (fiber optic cable) TED – (a) Technology Entertainment Design prize; TEEL – parts of a body paragraph in an essay: [1] [2] [3] * T - Topic sentence E - Explanation E - Evidence L - Link; TEETH – (a) Tried Everything Else, Try Homeopathy (medical ...
"bring together" and hence "compare" Confer is an imperative form of the Latin verb conferre. [3] Used interchangeably with "cp." in citations indicating the reader should compare a statement with that from the cited source. It is also widely used as an abbreviation for "see", although some styles recommend against such use.
Tobias Harris – "Tobi & Bobi" (with Boban Marjanović after they remained teammates in three separate organizations due to being packaged together in trade agreements) [95] Isaiah Hartenstein – "Hartenstein's Monster" Connie Hawkins – "The Hawk" [11] Udonis Haslem – "U.D."
An example that takes only the initial letters from its component words is צה״ל (Tzahal, for צבא הגנה לישראל, Israel Defense Forces). In inflected forms, the abbreviation sign gershayim remains between the second-last and last letters of the non-inflected form of the acronym (e.g. 'report', singular: דו״ח , plural: דו ...
Monograms are often made by combining the initials of an individual or a company, used as recognizable symbols or logos. A series of uncombined initials is properly referred to as a cypher (e.g. a royal cypher) and is not a monogram. [1] Many of today's monograms are embroidered on items for the home like towels, bedding, robes etc.
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau [a] —is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] English examples include smog , coined by blending smoke and fog , [ 3 ] [ 5 ] as well as motel , from motor ( motorist ) and hotel .