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Example sentences for: abbreviation
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This form started its career in the mid 1980s in street-cred, an abbreviation of street credibility --popular approval in urban working class culture--but now is beginning to show signs of developing into a buzz-suffix in its own right:
It is more than a hundred years later before an efficient abbreviation for it is found.
Representatives of the fifty-two nations that met in Budapest in December voted to change the name of their organization, the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, to the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, creating a new abbreviation, OSCE .
Thus, Alice to Assy, Gilbert to Gib, Melissa to Misa, Philip to Phip or Pip, Walter to Wat --and perhaps Charles to Chaz , though I think that is just a joke pronunciation for the abbreviation Chas .
In 1933, however, some writer mysteriously decides that a new word is needed to represent the pronunciation of the abbreviation.