Elsevier's Dictionary of Communicative Abbreviations

This text attempts to overcome the growing problems posed - in English - by "communicative abbrevations", autonomous entities originating in a noticeable reduction in the phonic corpus of the words or phrases they have stemmed from, as compared to graphical or standard abbreviations. The dictionary, having more than 5,700 entries, not only provides insight into etymological aspects, but also accurate meanings and contextualized samples mostly taken from original sources. This guide to this trend of the language covers extensive spectra of subject areas and should be an effective tool in the hands of English scholars.