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The x in Xmas represents the Greek letter chi, which is the initial letter of Christos - the Greek for Christ.Christians came to use X as a symbol, and it crept into the English language as a shorthand. From there it became more generally used.Xian for Christian and Xmas for Christmas are customary shorthand when religious writers are writing articles and books, and it gets 'corrected' by the tyepsetters.
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I took Century 21 shorthand in high school. It is a form of shorthand, just like Gregg or Pittman, although each one is a little different.
With the use of computer, smartphone and tablets, shorthand is a thing of the past.
i18n is shorthand for "internationalization."
There is no official abbreviation for cheese.
"Indy" is a shorthand for Indianapolis. The airport abbreviation is IND.
It's such a short word, there is no effective abbreviation for it.
Neb is shorthand for nebulizer in medical terminology.
Sed is often used as shorthand for sedimentation rate.
Epi is usually used as shorthand for epinephrine, as in an Epi-pen.
There is not an actual abbreviation for the word announcements. In shorthand, announcement is written as anncmnt and in some email subject lines announcement is sometimes shortened to ann.
Edmond Willis has written: 'An abbreviation of vvriting by character' -- subject(s): Early works to 1800, Shorthand 'An abreuiation of writing by character' -- subject(s): Early works to 1800, Shorthand
Court jargon and 'shorthand' varies greatly from jurisdiction-to-jurisdiction and is not at all uniform throughout the legal community. In my experience, the usual abbreviation would be "NOL PROS' but another court system may have another abbreviation.
The word construction is generally abbreviated as "const". However, it could be written in a slightly longer shorthand as "constn".
This may be a shorthand way of stating that a batter hit a fly ball to the shortstop. In baseball scoring (on scorecards), the abbreviation for the shortstop is "6".