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Subject:A bit more From:"Cornelisen, Renee @ SLG" <RCORNEL -at- SLC -dot- UNISYSGSG -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:14:00 MDT
The original post asked for a term that meant "short for". Webster's New
Collegiate says: Abbreviation= a shortened form of a written word or phrase
used in place of the whole. or Abbreviate= to make briefer.
All my life I wanted to copy words out of the dictionary and quibble over
bits.
Quibbles and Bits, Quibbles and Bits,...
Renee Cornelisen
rcornel -at- SLC -dot- unisysGSG -dot- com
