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Example sentences for: abbreviation

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David Galef's article, F U Cn Rd Ths [XXII,4,15], brought to mind a puzzling abbreviation I noticed on highway signs when I moved to Los Angeles some years ago.
It is more than a hundred years later before an efficient abbreviation for it is found.
(I find it convenient to distinguish an abbreviation as a shortening that is not or cannot be pronounced, like USA, UN, IOC, GB, NIH, NAS, RC, OED, IBM , etc., from an acronym as a shortening that is pronounced as a word, like ad lib, NASA, WREN, OPEC, COMSAT, NATO , etc.
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 .
Nevertheless, NoLIta, as the area is disagreeably called (the abbreviation stands for North of Little Italy), has become a style incubator for the rest of the city, which means for the country, which means for the world.