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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare, humorous) The excessive use of abbreviations..
We are evidently in for a bad patch of abbreviationitis. However, in the matter of chemical mechanisms we do seem to have passed the stage which could be referred to in general as OGIAGAA (one guess is as good as another).
In the future, if this abbreviationitis continues, all makes of cameras and apparatus will be known by symbols and numbers instead of names. This regimentation will knock all the nonsense out of shopping.
(The New World guys chop off the ically ; maybe this lexie taciturnity led to the younger generation’s rampant abbreviationitis.)
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Abbreviationitis means (rare, humorous) The excessive use of abbreviations..
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We are evidently in for a bad patch of abbreviationitis. However, in the matter of chemical mechanisms we do seem to have passed the stage which could be referred to in general as OGIAGAA (one guess is as good as another).
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