Springtime is often shortened to just "spring" or "spr" and occasionally even to "ing".
To ensure quick returns, the period for payments was often shortened to weekly or even daily.
Especially online, Chinese are experimenting with the Roman alphabet: government, "zhengfu" in pinyin, is often shortened to "ZF".
In the late 1980s, the United Kingdom's first female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, adopted the slogan "there is no alternative", often shortened to Tina.
Maybe the colorfully illicit history of Zihuatanejo (pronounced SEE-wha-ta-NAY-ho and often shortened to Zihua) had inspired the thought.
According to Wikipedia, "an expatriate (often shortened to expat) is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of the person's upbringing.
His name was Josiah (often shortened to "Siah") Carter, a 24-year-old carpenter from the James River plantation of Shirley, not far from the Monitor's anchorage.
But the process can be greatly aided and often shortened by tips on coping with life's challenges without resorting to alcohol from people who have overcome serious drinking problems.
What lingers in Florida is the memory of a governor who liked to announce "big, hairy, audacious goals" — often shortened to BHAG, pronounced "bee-hag" — and to pursue them zealously.
By all accounts, oilmen and farmers — often shortened to "oil and ag" here — have coexisted peacefully for decades in this conservative, business friendly part of California about 110 miles northwest of Los Angeles.
What would the southern state be called: "the United Kingdom of England and Wales," or just "England," or the horrible term of political scientists, "Residual UK," often shortened as "rUK"?
