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1、[Expand]SupportWikipedia:anon-profitproject—DonateNowAbbreviationFromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumpto:navigation,searchFortheHTMLtag,seeHTMLelement.ForguidelinesonmakingandeditingabbreviationarticlesonWikipedia,seeWikipedia:Disambiguationandabbreviations.Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitatio
2、nsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingreliablereferences.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.(May2008)Anabbreviation(fromLatinbrevis"short")isashortenedformofawordorphrase.Usually,butnotalways,itconsistsofaletterorgroupofletterstakenfromthewordorphrase.Forexample,theword"ab
3、breviation"canitselfberepresentedbytheabbreviation"abbr."or"abbrev."Contents[hide]·1History·2Typesofabbreviationo2.1Syllabicabbreviation§2.1.1Useinvariouslanguages§2.1.2Syllabicabbreviationsinnamesoforganizations·3StyleconventionsinEnglisho3.1Lowercaseletterso3.2Periods(fullstops)andspaceso3.3Plu
4、ralformso3.4Conventionsfollowedbypublicationsandnewspapers§3.4.1UnitedStates§3.4.2UnitedKingdom§3.4.3Miscellaneousandgeneralrules·4Measurement·5Seealso·6References·7Externallinks[edit]HistoryAbbreviationhasbeenusedaslongasphoneticscriptexisted,insomesensesactuallybeingmorecommoninearlyliteracy,wh
5、erespellingoutawholewordwasoftenavoided,initialletterscommonlybeingusedtorepresentwordsinspecificapplication.ByclassicalGreeceandRome,thereductionofwordstosingleletterswasstillnormal,butnolongerthedefault.Anincreaseinliteracyhas,historically,sometimesspawnedatrendtowardabbreviation.Thestandardiza
6、tionofEnglishinthe15ththrough17thcenturiesincludedsuchagrowthintheuseofabbreviation[1].Atfirst,abbreviationsweresometimesrepresentedwithvarioussuspensionsigns,notonlyperiods.Forexample,specificphonemesetslike"er"weredroppedfromwordsandreplacedwithɔ,like"mastɔ"insteadof"master"orexacɔbateinsteadof
7、"exacerbate".Whilethisseemstrivial,itwassymptomaticofanattemptbypeoplemanuallyreproducingacademictextstoreducetheircopytime.AnexamplefromtheOxforduniversityRegister,1503:Mastɔsubwardenɔyɔmēdemetoyou.Andwherɔywrottoyout
