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He (the Professor) was a failure but did his best to hid it. One of his failings was that he could barely write, except in a twelfth century hand, in Latin, with abbreviations.
Know the official post office abbreviations for all 50 states without having to consult a list.
Abbreviations main Time zones are often represented by alphabetic abbreviations such as "EST", "WST", and "CST", but these are not part of the international time and date standard ISO 8601 and their use as sole designator for a time zone is discouraged.
Although written in Greek, by convention the works are referred to by Latin titles, and often by merely abbreviations of those.
An unfortunate side effect of this, coupled with the early need to write minimalist code, was that MUMPS programmers routinely did not comment code and used extensive abbreviations.
At first, abbreviations were sometimes represented with various suspension signs, not only periods.