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ABBREVIATION IN ENGLISH

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ABBREVIATION IN ENGLISH


An abbreviation is a shorter way to write a word or phrase. People use abbreviations


for words that they write a lot. The English language often uses the apostrophe mark '


to show that a word is written in a shorter way, but some abbreviations do not use this mark.


Some abbreviations use the period mark, especially the ones that come from the Latin language.


Some examples of common English abbreviations are "don't" for "do not", "shouldn't" for "should not", "etc." for "et cetera".


Some new abbreviations have been created by scientists, by workers in companies and governments, and by people using the Internet.


Here are a few examples: The word "radar" is an abbreviation for "Radio Detection and Ranging".


The name of the large computer company IBM comes from the words "International Business Machines".


The name of the part of the United States government that sends rockets into outer space is


NASA, from the words "National Aeronautics and Space Administration".


When people using the Internet think that something is very funny, they sometimes write "LOL" to mean


"Laughing Out Loud". People sometimes write "ASAP" for "As Soon As Possible".


Common Latin Abbreviations
Abbreviation       Latin                English usage


ca.                    circa                    approximately


cf.                     confer                 compare


e.g.                   exempli gratia      for example


et al.                 et alii                   and the others


etc.                   et cetera              and so on


ibid.                  ibidem                 in the same place as the previous reference


i.e.                    id est                  that is


N.B.               Nota Bene            note well


P.S.               post scriptum         an addition to the main text


viz.                   videlicet               namely


A.M.            ante meridiem         before noon


BBC                British Broadcasting Corporation


ICI                  Imperial Chemical Industries


FBI                  Federal Bureau of Investigation


RSPCA           Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals


NATO             North Atlantic Treaty Organization


MIT                Massachusetts Institute of Technology


TUC                Trades Union Congress


USA                United States of America


NMR              Nuclear Magnetic Resonance


ELT - English Language Teaching


ESL - English as a Second Language


EFL - English as a Foreign Language


AAAL - American Assocation for Applied Linguistics


ACTFL - American Council on the teaching of Foreign Languages


AE - American English


BAAL - British Assocation of Applied Linguistics


BC - British Council


GMAT - Graduate Management Admission Test. The GMAT measures general verbal, mathematical, and analytical writing skills.


GPA - Grade Point Average


GRE - Graduate Record Examination - an evaluation test for graduate admission to colleges and universities in the U.S.


SAE - Standard American English


SAT - Scholastic Assessment (Aptitude) Test - pre-university entrance exam in the USA


TEFL - Teaching English as a Foreign Language


TEFLA - Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults


TEIL - Teaching English as an International Language


TESL - Teaching English as a Second Language


TESOL - Teaching English to Speakers of Other Langauges


TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language - the most common English proficiency exam for


North American universities and colleges, also accepted by some British universities and employers as proof of English proficiency.





The Oxford English Dictionary: List of Abbreviations


A


  
a. (in Etym.)


adoption of, adopted from


a (as a 1850)


ante, 'before', 'not later than'


a.


adjective


abbrev.


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