CRC Press Abbreviations Dictionary (Routledge Revivals)

Product Description Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.   Review "...this volume is essential. Its worth is enhanced by a listing of nicknames and appellations that are otherwise likely to be incomprehensible to foreigners...an essential addition to public, academic, and corporate reference libraries." -The San Diego Union "This book has it all...besides being informative, the book is interesting and fun." -Veterinary and Human Toxicology "This is a useful book and should appeal to the individual or library acquisitions director with a limited budget." -Verbatim "An up-to-date source for locating some of the most elusive segments of our language." -Booknotes "[This] compilation of abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, terms, etc., is an excellent source for information that is not found in other works." -Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association "The classic status of this title endures: abbreviations are again joined by a dazzling array of acronyms, contractions, initials, nicknames, short forms, signs and symbols. Its 15,000 new terms swell the dictionary to nearly 300,000 entries…excellent and unique…" --S. Swanson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, CHOICE, October 2001, Vol. 39 No. 2 About the Author Dean Stahl and Karen Kerchelich