Quotes About Abbreviation

What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated.

And now we have the World Wide Web (the only thing I know of whose shortened form—www—takes three times longer to say than what it's short for)

Modestus, , m., Modestus, Roman cognomen from an adj. meaning "temperate" or "unassuming" another notice for the man's election reads MODESTVM AED • O • V • F, where the last three letters, as we have seen before, are the standard abbreviation for r vs facitis, I ask you to make (elect), and in another inscription we have the candidate's full name, Marcus Samellius Modestus.

I had experienced a TIA, which of course further infuriated your mother (she has always been hostile to abbreviation).

ds mnibus: for this phrase, commonly abbreviated D. M., see "Epitaph of a Young Boy," in Capvt VII.—fcit: sc. id, i.e., the monument.

word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: "I am your slave!")

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

plural n. (usually the DTs) INFORMAL delirium tremens. mid 19th century: abbreviation, originally in the singular form DT (now rare).

Was I the only person in the world clueless enough to have always thought that AD meant After Death,

I was born Davenie Johanna Heatherton, but my name was abbreviated for practical purposes.

by leaving out the vowels, it had the great advantage of reducing the number of signs to just over twenty.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!

It was perceived that in thus abbreviating a name one narrowed and subtly altered its meaning, by cutting out most of the associations that would otherwise cling to it.

Margaret laughed. "Sure thing. Sorry, Ave. I'll go and get the tea." Ave. If Avice had been feeling less awful, she would have corrected her: there was nothing worse than an abbreviated name.

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

I'm starting to think they know that WWE stands for Walk With Elias more than any other abbreviation.

As a rule, any loan that had been turned into an acronym or abbreviation could more clearly be called a "subprime loan," but the bond market didn't want to be clear.

His name was Cal, which I thought must be short for something, but I couldn't think what it would be short for, unless it was California.

What's the dog called?' Jason asked. 'Feraclestinius Androbrelium Pathershin the Seventh.' 'No, I meant his entire name.' 'To abbreviate, I call him Feracles.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Email to Eric from Bill: GFY. Let me know if you need help with that abbreviation Sheriff. Bill

If mention of degrees is necessary to establish someone's credentials, the preferred form is to avoid an abbreviation and use instead a phrase such as: John Jones, who has a doctorate in psychology.