ABSTRACT
Users of English like to shorten and abbreviate whenever they can. Consider that “television,” which means “to send a picture,” has been shortened in England to “telly,” but “TV” in the states. Truncating the language is common practice; it happens all the time. We take “taxis,” not “taxicabs”; we say “24/ 7” when we mean “24 hours a day, seven days a week”; we say “post op” when we mean “after the operation,” and we say “specs” for “specifications.”
