What are abbreviations?
Abbreviations are basically the short forms of words and phrases.
For Example – Mister becomes Mr ,United Kingdom becomes UK and there are many more countless words and phrases which are written in shortened forms.
People use Abbreviations very often but knowingly or knowingly some of them do not use it in the right way. There are many confusions regarding abbreviations such as whether to use full stop after the abbreviation or not, which abbreviation should be written in capital and which abbreviation is to be written in short letters. There are many such confusions regarding abbreviations. Let us know some interesting facts about abbreviations –
- Whether to use full stop after an Abbreviation or not?
If two different letters are used together representing two different words then there is no need to use aw full stop after the Abbreviation. For Example –
BBC Stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. This abbreviation represents two different words so there there is no full stop in it.
If the letters of the abbreviation are from the same word, then also there is no need of a full stop. For Example –
Ltd stands for Limited. All the three letters in the abbreviation are taken from a single word so there is no full stop used in this abbreviation.
When we use the first two or three letters of a word as an abbreviation, we use a full stop. For Example –
Wed. stands for Wednesday. In this a full stop is used as the first three letters of the word Wednesday are used.
2. Another question which comes into our mind is when to use capital and when to use small letters in an Abbreviation?
Basically, when the first letter of a word is used in it’s abbreviation a capital letter is used. For Example –
HSBC stands for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
Have you ever heard of the word Acronym?
An Acronym is an Abbreviation in which the first letters of more then one word are used so that it’s Abbreviation itself can form a word. For Example –
Aids stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.