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Abbreviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis , meaning "short") is a shortened form of a word or phrase. Usually, but not always, it consists of a letter or group of letters taken from the word or phrase. F...
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Acronym and initialism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO ) or parts of words (as in Bene...
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My solution was to write a function that calls a command by its abbreviation. ... (defun th-execute-abbreviated-command (prefixarg) "Queries for a command abbreviation like "mbm" and calculates a list of all commands of the form "m[^-]*-b[^-]*-m[^-]*$". If this list has only one item, this command will be called interactively.
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Unperturbed, TCBY deftly shifted its underlying name to The Country's Best Yogurt, kept the well-established abbreviation, and went on its merry yogurt-peddling way. (Few of us now remember the third fro-yo warrior, YSCCMTTIIFY, which stood for: You Simply Cannot Convince Me That This Is in Fact Yogurt!)
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I think that the etymology of "ID" is the first 2 letters of "identification", which makes it an ordinary abbreviation, not an acronym such as URL, HTML, etc. Or is there some reason to believe it comes from e.g. "Identity Document"?
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