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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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