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Looking for abbreviation or similar meaning words. The context is recommended songs, movies, books etc. I need a shorter way to say the same thing (preferably half the characters) in order to fit...
When abbreviating the word "recommendations" as "reco's", is it proper to use the apostrophe to show that it's an abbreviation, or does it conflict with a possessive apostrophe?
What is the abbreviation for the fixed price of the product being sold (resale) in consumer shops?
The same style should be used throughout any article." "To indicate around, approximately, or about, the unitalicised abbreviation c. is preferred over circa, ca, ca., approximately, or approx., and should be spaced (c. 1291).
What's the shortest abbreviation for a full date (day, month, and year) recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style? I know CMOS recommends against all-numeral dates, so I'd rather not use those. (...
According to the MLA Style Manual , 3d ed., 8.4, f./ff. after a page or line number means “and the following page (s) or line (s)”, but the abbreviation is “no longer recommended”; explicit page numbers are called for, e.g. 25-26. (Note that MLA now also deprecates use of p. and pp.) Folio (abbreviated fol., but again, the abbreviation is “no longer recommended”) designates either ...
The question came up because I'm making a user input form with a field for units and the framework optionally specifies an abbreviation for the input field's label. So, in a medical context, this Prescription: [Hydrocodone] is as valid is this Rx: [Hydrocodone] But can this Units: [Milligrams] be correctly substituted with something like this?
0 Yes, both (s)he and he/she are acceptable abbreviations for usage where space is at a premium and gender of a person is important. s/he is not a common abbreviation, and will confuse more users than the other two. However, if at all possible, you should ignore the issue.
If person A gives person B a recommendation, can you call A recommender and B recommendee — or are these words made up? I've seen both forms used in everyday language (e.g. magazines), but never in a dictionary or grammar book, or in literature. Also, what is the process of creating recommendee or recommender out of recommendation called?
What is the correct way to pluralize an acronym? asked about pluralising acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms, but is there a standard way to add verb endings e.g. -ing and -ed (what are these c...