abbreviating

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If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association.

From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2024

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has been nicknamed Albo since he was a child in keeping with a time-honored Australian tradition of abbreviating names and often adding “o” at the end.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 9, 2022

But the hastily built websites can be tripped up by someone abbreviating a word or putting an extra space in an address.

From Washington Post • Jul. 6, 2020

And apologies were made, and understanding was reached, and they got back to abbreviating, and they said, “What’s next?”

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2019

The misuse comes of abbreviating: the sentence properly written might be, They were alike in respect of that—i.e., with regard to that.

From Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Bierce, Ambrose