Īfter World War II, the British greatly reduced their use of the full stop and other punctuation points after abbreviations in at least semi-formal writing, while the Americans more readily kept such use until more recently, and still maintain it more than Britons. Likewise, a century earlier in Boston, a fad of abbreviation started that swept the United States, with the globally popular term OK generally credited as a remnant of its influence. Lewis, and other members of the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings, are sometimes cited as symptomatic of this. The use of abbreviation for the names of "Father of modern etymology" J.
For example, during the growth of philological linguistic theory in academic Britain, abbreviating became very trendy. In the 1830s in the United States, starting with Boston, abbreviation became a fad.
And wherɔ y wrot to you the last wyke that y trouyde itt good to differrɔ thelectionɔ ovɔ to quīdenaɔ tinitatis y have be thougħt me synɔ that itt woll be thenɔ a bowte mydsomɔ. An example from the Oxford University Register, 1503: While this seems trivial, it was symptomatic of an attempt by people manually reproducing academic texts to reduce their copy time. For example, specific phoneme sets like "er" were dropped from words and replaced with ɔ, like "mastɔ" instead of "master" or exacɔbate instead of "exacerbate". At first, abbreviations were sometimes represented with various suspension signs, not only periods. The standardization of English in the 15th through 17th centuries included such a growth in the use of abbreviation. By classical Greece and Rome, the reduction of words to single letters was still normal, but no longer the default.Īn increase in literacy has, historically, sometimes spawned a trend toward abbreviation.
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