Abbreviation ( page 4 ).
Questions.
1. Is an abbreviation always a contraction? 2. Is a contraction always an abbreviation? Give instances. 3. Can we have an abbreviation of a book, paragraph, or sentence? What can be abbreviated? and what abridged?
Examples.
The treatise was already so brief that it did not admit of ——.
The —— Dr. is used both for Doctor and Debtor.
F. R. S. is an —— of the title "Fellow of the Royal Society."