Because English is a profoundly weird language.
It is a common abbreviation for 'Italian'. It's based on the first two letters of the word. The two letters are the beginning letters for the word in a number of languages. So the abbreviation works under a number of situations, in a number of different languages.
You abbreviate long words, not short ones. You don't need to abbreviate slang because it's only 5 letters long.
The abbreviation for the word "significance" is "sig."
The abbreviation of the word cultural is "cult."
The base word of abbreviation is "abbreviate."
It is an abbreviation; an acronym is an abbreviation which forms a word, but 'USF' is not so.
WORD: incorporation ABBREVIATION: inc. WORD: avenue ABBREVIATION: ave. WORD: doctor ABBREVIATION: Dr. WORD: community ABBREVIATION: com. WORD: organization ABBREVIATION: org. WORD: abbreviation ABBREVIATION: abbr.
There is no abbreviation for the word ocean.
The Italian word for ounce used to be spelled 'onza', so 'oz.' is an abbreviation for this spelling.
Abbreviation for the word management is 'mgmt'.
The abbreviation of the word case is CS.
the abbreviation of about is abt.
The abbreviation for the word 'answer' is A or ANS
There is no abbreviation for that word.
WITH in abbreviation is w/.
there's no abbreviation for the word mail, it's a pretty short word so it's not needed to use a short-form. But sometimes while SMSing people frequently use 'ml' for mail, so that could work.
The abbreviation for the word "small" is S or SM.