David Crystal

People say that text messaging is a new language and that people are filling texts with abbreviations - but when you actually analyse it, you find they're not.

English Educator

Elias

I'm starting to think they know that WWE stands for Walk With Elias more than any other abbreviation.

American Wrestler

Marilyn vos Savant

Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.

American Writer

Philip Hammond

The military never uses a full word if they can create an abbreviation.

British Politician

Identify abbreviations by their shorter length and dotted or undotted upper cases in texts.

Recognizing Abbreviations

While speaking, say the full word rather than the abbreviation unless it's widely accepted like 'info'.

Speaking Out

Some abbreviations may mean different things in different cultures; always check their context.

Cultural Variations

Recognize that dots or small lines signify an abbreviation in technical or formal writing.

Abbreviation Marks

In official documents, using the correct abbreviation marks can change the meaning significantly.

Formal Documentation

Learn proper abbreviation use in writing to prevent misunderstandings or incorrect interpretations.

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 and we typically designate them with single-letter abbreviations, so it's really an alphabet of amino acids. In an enzyme, these amino acids are strung together, like pearls on a necklace. And it's really the identity of the amino acids, which letters are in that necklace, and in what order they are, what they spell out,

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 what exactly she did on the factory floor, she said something to me in Chinese that sounded like "qiu xi." Only much later did I realize that she had been saying "QC," or quality control. She couldn't even tell me what she did on the factory floor. All she could do was parrot a garbled abbreviation

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 it's just a portion of it, from the black widow spider. This is the kind of sequence that I love looking at day and night. So what you're seeing here is the one letter abbreviation for amino acids, and I've colored in the glycines with green, and the alanines in red, and so

Cheryl Hayashi: The...

 Well, when you factor in the number of letters, the variety of possible related words, and all their abbreviations and alternate spellings, they're pretty high. You can try it yourself. Just pick a favorite text, arrange the letters in a grid, and see what you can find.

The origin of countless...

 Other scholars took up the theme, and the proposed analogies and connections multiplied. They suggested that Dorothy's dog Toto represented the teetotalers of the prohibition party. Oz was clearly the abbreviation for ounces, an important unit in the silver debate.

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 x-factor we hash tag everything X collaborations use abbreviations and disregard punctuation but so what because we migrated from the mindset of we have to - we want to so rather than know a lot about a little we decided it was better to know a little about a lot

An ode to the millennial...

 Actually, that's EPC Which is the abbreviation for extra-pair copulation. Now, we define extra-pair copulation as the mating outside of a pair bond. And just like we were discovering via science, it can lead to babies that don't belong to the male partner.

How hip-hop helps us...

 too difficult to pronounce they call me abbreviations letters alphabets different letters of the alphabet but never my full name that makes an impact on you in many cases I contemplate it should I change my name should I abbreviate it to make it more

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 Where is the line between scientific certainty and the need to act? The unplanned experiment that is happening right now is called mountaintop removal. The abbreviation for it is MTR. It is a form of surface coal mining

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 the upper-class initially considered the abbreviation vulgar by the time Edgar Allan Poe printed the word in 1840 pence was a generally accepted term with the meaning we know today

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