Why does the word 'abbreviation' have so many letters?
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Nice one mate, you've spotted an ironic gem of the English language.
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Although the English word worldwide is normally written as one word (without a space or hyphen), the proper name World Wide Web and abbreviation WWW are now well-established even in formal English. The earliest references to the Web called it the WorldWideWeb (an example of computer programmers' fondness for intercaps) or the World-Wide Web (with a hyphen, this version of the name is the closest to normal English usage).\n\nIronically, the abbreviation "WWW" is impractical as it contains more syllables than the full term "World Wide Web", and thus takes longer to say. It is, however, easier to type.\n\nSimply cuz' its an acronym of World Wide Web !
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But how many letters? Are those all the letters?? If this is part of a crossword puzzle, maybe you got the other answers wrong.
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The modern georgian alphabet has thirty-three letters. Originally it had more, but some letters have become obsolete.\n\nFor more information about the georgian alphabet see the link.
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Could you tell us first what this abbreviation stand for?!!
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No.\n\nSome other languages have more than 27 letters in their alphabets.\nEnglish used to have more itself including þ (named:Thorn), đ (Eth), and æ (Ash).
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There are 11 letters in "THE ALPHABET"
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Here are a few I've used in the past.  The first link allows you to use words up to 15 letters long.  \n\nHappy puzzling!!
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The abbreviation "lbs." certainly seems like a strange way to write "pounds," until you consider the origin of the word. Like many terms used in science, the word "pound" has a Latin background. It comes from "libra pondo," the Latin expression for a "pound of weight." The English word "pound" comes from "pondo," and the abbreviation "lb." comes from "libra." When you are referring to more than one pound, an "s" is added to the abbreviation to make it plural, so it becomes "lbs."
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it's actually very simple- it is in fact based on the removal of vowels to shorten the material being written.\n\n example:\nits actlly vry smpl- n fct bsd on rmvl o vwls 2 shrtn mtrl bng wrtn
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Ooooh dear. The pudding is still a little soggy at the bottom isn't it.\n\n\nWe have *ONE* alphabet\nThere are 26 letters in the English alphabet\nWe are clever so we can use upper AND lower case\nPronunciation is how a letter sounds - nothing to do with a letter
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<>Emoticons are small graphics (smiley faces, etc.) that are used to provide facial expression.  Acronyms are representative phrases spelled by the initials of the words (ROFL = Rolling On FLoor Laughing).  And the text shortcuts are any shorthand, phonetic shortening, or other abbreviations used to help speed up the writing of email and text messages (eg: b4 = before).  While these might be of use to the writer, many readers may be put off by their uses:  I 4 1 cant stnd ppl wrtg lk ths, so pls dnt do t wen u wrt 2 me :P
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Its an anagram. ODYSSEY is what I came up with. Look at the top of all the pages, they are scattered about... pg 55, 89, 131, etc... Ill let you find the rest on your own. :)
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R,A,M, R,P,A, Y,A,M ,N,U,J, L,U,J, G,U,A, P,E,S, T,C,O, V,O,N, C,E,D\n\nIt's the abbreviations for the months.  The months are in order, but the abbreviations are backward.\n\n***Edited to put spaces in so they would all show up.
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well she says it's a trick question....but I did a lil digging and if you want to be technical about it there is more then one word spelled in alphabetical order....\n\nThe longest word whose letters are in alphabetical order is the eight-letter Aegilops, a grass genus. The seven-letter addeems (from the archaic verb addeem, meaning to award), alloquy (an archaic or literary word for an address), beefily (in a beefy manner), billowy (like a wave or surge), dikkops (a South African bird) and gimmors (plural of gimmor, an old-fashioned word for a mechanical contrivance) are also close.\n\n\n\nas for the trick part... I don't get it! LOL
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Out because it has more letters.
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It is the origin of the word and the meaning behind it\n\n"abbreviation  \n1460, from M.Fr. abréviation, from L.L. abbreviationem (nom. abbreviatio), from pp. of abbreviare "make brief," from L. ad "to" + breviare "shorten," from brevis "short, low, little, shallow" (see brief (adj.)). "