Краткий курс лекций по лексикологии английского языка для студентов неязыковых вузов. Москалёва Е.В. - 56 стр.

                  Abbreviation of words:
                  Abbreviation of words consists in clipping a part of a word.
            As a result we get a new lexical unit where either the lexical
            meaning or the style is different form the full form of the word.
            In such cases as “fantasy” and “fancy”, “fence” and “defence” we
            have different lexical meanings. In such cases as “laboratory”
            and “lab”, we have different styles.
                  Abbreviation does not change the part-of-speech meaning,
            as we have it in the case of conversion or affixation, it produces
            words belonging to the same part of speech as the primary word,
            e.g. “prof” is a noun and “professor” is also a noun. Mostly nouns
            undergo abbreviation, but we can also meet abbreviation of verbs,
            such as to “rev” from “to revolve”, “to tab” from “to tabulate” etc.
            But mostly abbreviated forms of verbs are formed by means of
            conversion from abbreviated nouns, e.g. to taxi, to vac etc.
            Adjectives can be abbreviated but they are mostly used in school
            slang and are combined with suffixation, e.g. comfy, dilly, mizzy
            etc. As a rule pronouns, numerals, interjections, conjunctions are
            not abbreviated. The exceptions are: fif (fifteen), teenager, in
            one's teens (apheresis from numerals from 13 to 19).
                  Lexical abbreviations are classified according to the part of
            the word which is clipped. Mostly the end of the word is clipped,
            because the beginning of the word in most cases is the root and
            expresses the lexical meaning of the word. This type of
            abbreviation is called apocope. Here we can mention a group of
            words ending in «o», such as disco (discotheque), expo
            (exposition), intro (introduction) and many others. On the
            analogy with these words there developed in Modern English a
            number of words where «o» is added as a kind of a suffix to the
            shortened form of the word, e.g. combo (combination) etc. In
            other cases the beginning of the word is clipped. In such cases we
            have apheresis, e.g. chute (parachute), versity (university), copter
            (helicopter), thuse (enthuse) etc. Sometimes the middle of the
            word is clipped, e.g. mart (market), fanzine (fan magazine) maths
            (mathematics). Such abbreviations are called syncope. Sometimes
            we have a combination of apocope with apheresis, when the

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