7 Verbs to Use for the Word abbreviations

"Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into a twelve-month; seven nights into se'night; fourteen nights into a fortnight.

The best stenographers make mistakes in filling out their abbreviations and in distinguishing the similar signs which stand for very dissimilar sounds.

"The second and third person singular of the present are made of the first, by adding est and eth; which last is sometimes shortened into s. It seemeth to have been poetical licence which first introduced this abbreviation of the third person into use; but our best grammarians have condemned it upon some occasions, though perhaps not to be absolutely banished the common and familiar style.

I read my notes aloud, expanding the abbreviations I had made.

That met every abbreviation and made a beautifully exact reversal of the intended meaning.

My poor mother, after strenuously preventing abbreviations in her own family, has to endure them in her descendants, and as every one names a daughter after her, there is some excuse!

In this instance, a period should mark the abbreviation, and a comma be set after of.

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  abbreviations