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Subject:Re: Re. Once bit, twice shy From:Matt Ion <mion -at- DIRECT -dot- CA> Date:Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:51:44 PDT
On Thu, 20 Jul 1995 08:19:49 -0400 you wrote:
> All abbreviations (shortening of words) and acronyms (initialisms and
> pronouncable words, both) are contractions; in the former case, the
> contraction occurs by truncating the word, whereas in the latter, you
> are generally truncating and combining several words.
What I want to know is, why are "abbreviation" and "contraction" such long
words???
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