LOL One of the first text
abbreviations to emerge from instant messaging, it is often mistaken for "lots of love" but is "laugh out loud".
The police expect that all the combinations for BL will be "run off" next year, hence the need for the new
abbreviation.In the past, the
abbreviations consisted of three letters and followed an alphabetic order.
Abbreviations are a part of our busy lives, and while they may be fun on social media and for texting, there is more to the story.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices recommendations are based, at least in part, on medical errors reported to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the FDA involving the
abbreviations "tPA" and "TNK." Between 2000 and June 2014, the FDA alone received 21 cases of wrong drug administration errors associated with tenecteplase.
Murkomen said the intention of Wiper to re-brand to One Kenya Movement and further use the OKM
abbreviation is mischievous and aimed at illegally exploiting his well-known political brand.
- Many of them are used in the titles of articles and are given t in the contents he source or the equivalent phrase which is usually placed in the vicinity of
abbreviation or at a short distance from it.
And then, if an
abbreviation consists of only the primary part of a word, then again one affixes a full stop at the end.
I did a completely nonscientific survey of how Google did coming up with meanings for various
abbreviations randomly selected from Taber's list (I closed my eyes and picked).
The same can be said for other variants that occur throughout the text but are sometimes found within the same stint, for example, the more and less ornate
abbreviations of er/re (Fig.
Sis, Si's plural and possessive of the chemical
abbreviation for silicon
Symbols,
abbreviations, and conventions are commonplace in mathematics text, allowing mathematical ideas to be communicated concisely (Bobis, Mulligan & Lowrie, 2004).
An acronym is an
abbreviation that has sounds coincidentally arranged in a manner that makes their pronunciation a word.