Words You Never Realized Were Abbreviations
Some abbreviations are obvious — you type “lol” instead of “laughing out loud,” for example, and use “Tbsp.,” “tsp.,” and “c.” in a recipe that calls for tablespoons, teaspoons, and cups. You might even know the difference between acronyms (abbreviations that are said as a word, such as NASA) and
initialisms (abbreviations pronounced with individual letters, such as FBI). But there are many more sneaky abbreviations hiding in your everyday speech. Can you find all 18 abbreviations in this story about Sally’s day off? Now read the same story with the common abbreviations spelled out: The function of an abbreviation...
