Abbreviations and Acronyms in English Speaking

Abbreviations are short forms of words or phrases that are widely used.

Acronym is a short form (one word) of a phrase consisting of first letters of each word in the phrase.

Commonly used abbreviations are:

E.g. is used in place of ‘for example’. It is used for giving one or more examples.  

•             There are many things you can buy from here e.g. headphones, speakers, music system for your car etc. 

cf. is used in place of ‘compare’. It is an abbreviation for latin word ‘confer’. It is used for referring to another given book, document or statement.  Sometimes it is used in place of ‘see’. 

i.e. is used in place of ‘that is’ in written language before giving an explanation about something. 

•             We need to catch the afternoon’s bus i.e. we need to have lunch and finish our shopping in two hours. 

viz. is used in written English when we want to say something in detail or be exact about what we’re saying.

•             We both are going to Dharamshala viz. we will stay there and practice Buddhism while running a small business.  

Etc is used in place of ‘et cetera’. In order to avoid long list of something we use it. 

•             There are cupcakes, muffins, chocolate cookies etc. in her bakery. 

RSVP is written at the end of invitations to mean ‘please respond’. When you receive invitation with RSVP written you must reply saying you accept or decline the invitation. You can also put name with the phone number and address. 

•             RSVP 2475947 (ph no.) by Dec 10 2013

ASAP stands for ‘as soon as possible’. 

•             Please come ASAP.

ETA stands for ‘estimated time arrival’. The time when someone is expected to arrive. 

•             What is your flight’s ETA? 

P.S. is used at the end of letters or mail to add extra information. It stands for ‘post script’.

•             With lots of love, Rajat. P.S. Pay my regards to your parents

DIY stands for ‘do it yourself’. The activity of doing things like repairing, decorating, making something all by yourself without the help of paid professionals. 

•             It’s a DIY game. 

PhD stands for ‘doctor of philosophy’. It is the highest university degree.

•             She has a PhD in Semiotics.

•             He is a PhD in English Language. 

A.D. (or AD) stands for ‘anno domini’. It is used in Christian calendar to refer to a year after Jesus Christ was born.

•             In 1400 AD or in AD 1400

•             In tenth century AD. 

B.C. (or BC) stands for ‘before Christ’. . It is used in Christian calendar to refer to a year before Jesus Christ was born. 

•             The war took place in 98 BC.

A.M. is used to refer to a time between twelve at night and twelve at noon. 

•             The baby was born at two a.m.

P.M. is used to refer to a time between twelve at noon and twelve at night. 

•             The movie is at seven p.m.

Most funniest english writing at High School

ORIGINAL POST: I have to share these “funniest analogies” with you. They came in an e-mail from my friend. He got them from a friend, who got them from a pen friend, who got them from… so they are circulating around. My apologies if you have already seen them.

The e-mail says they are taken from actual high school essays and collected by English teachers across the country for their own amusement. Some of these kids may have bright futures as humor writers. What do you think?

1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a ThighMaster.

2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.

4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.

8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.

9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn’t.

10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.

12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.

13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan’s teeth.

16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.

18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

19. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.