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3 Tips for Using Correct Abbreviations Shorten a Long Word by Writing Down the Beginning of that Word. You can abbreviate a long word by writing the first part of the word.Omit the Vowels of a Word.Write Just the First Letter and the Last Letter of a Monosyllabic Word.

Top 10 Text Abbreviations ROFL means Rolling on floor laughing. STFU means Shut the freak up. LMK means Let me know. ILY means I love you. YOLO means You only live once. SMH means Shaking my head. LMFAO means Laughing my freaking a off. NVM means Never mind.

Introducing acronyms Introduce every acronym before using it in the text. The first time you use the term, put the acronym in parentheses after the full term. Thereafter, you can stick to using the acronym.

If you're on the team that considers initialisms as a type of acronym, these are some common initialism examples: AFK - Away From Keyboard. BBL - Be Back Later. BBS - Be Back Soon. BEG - Big Evil Grin. BRB - Be Right Back. BTW - By The Way. EG - Evil Grin. IDK - I Don't Know.

Abbreviations/Acronyms Spell out the full term at its first mention, indicate its abbreviation in parenthesis and use the abbreviation from then on, with the exception of acronyms that would be familiar to most readers, such as MCC and USAID.

Typically, acronyms and initialisms are written in all capital letters to distinguish them from ordinary words. (When fully spelled out, the words in acronyms and initialisms do not need to be capitalized unless they entail a proper noun.)

Always write out the first in-text reference to an acronym, followed by the acronym itself written in capital letters and enclosed by parentheses. Subsequent references to the acronym can be made just by the capital letters alone.