Im new on this forum so please be tolerant to the next you see here:
Abbreviation (from Latin brevis "short") - is strictly a shorter
form of a word, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or
group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to
represent them for the sake of brevity. For example, the word
"abbreviation" can be abbreviated as "abbr." or "abbrev."
I was asking myself many times, why people uses abbreviations
instead of pronounce it by full names, but abbreviation have an
own history, it's pretty old and valuable to ignore it:
After World War II, the British greatly reduced their use of the full
stop and other punctuations after abbreviations in at least
semi-formal writing, while the Americans more readily kept its
use until more recently, and still maintain it more than Britons.
The classic example, considered by their American counterparts
quite curious, was the maintenance of the internal comma in a
British organization of secret agents called the "Special Operations,
Executive" – "S.O.E." – which is not found in histories written
after about 1960.
But before that, many Britons were more scrupulous at maintaining
the French form. In French, the period only follows an abbreviation
if the last letter in the abbreviation is not the last letter of its
antecedent: "M." is the abbreviation for "monsieur" while
"Mme" is that for "Madame" and "Mlle" for "Mademoiselle". Like many
other cross-channel linguistic acquisitions, many Britons readil
took this up and followed this rule themselves, while the American
took a simpler rule and applied it rigorously.
Over the years, however, the lack of convention in some style guides
has made it difficult to determine which two-word abbreviations
should be abbreviated with periods and which should not.
The U.S. media tend to abbreviate two-word abbreviations like
United States (U.S.), but surprisingly, not personal computer (PC)
or television (TV), which is a source of confusion.
Many British publications have gradually done away with the
use of periods in abbreviations completely.
Sorry, got little bit away from the topic.
So what exactly AAAA stays for?
Of course this is more of them, and im happy you help me with
it by posting here other meanings you have for AAAA abbreviation
or send me as private message.
Thanx for the patience,
Dorhaim.
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