The word is originally coined like this :
N - north
E= East
W=West
S=South
The Result : The FOUR directions of the globe.
It is an abbreviation; an acronym is an abbreviation which forms a word, but 'USF' is not so.
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The word lineal is redundant and so the abbreviation is "ft"
The Latin.The word was Latin for "terrible lizard".So there you go.:D
Of is only a two-letter word, so it is not abbreviated.
There is no standard abbreviation in English for "cousins," because the word is so short that no abbreviation is usually needed.
The Italian word for ounce used to be spelled 'onza', so 'oz.' is an abbreviation for this spelling.
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.
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.
you do not need an abbreviation for a 4 letter word, so there is no abreviation
I don't think so, as gen is an abbreviation.
Sample is not a word that you would have a common abbreviation for, so people might not know what word your referring to.