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Abbreviate keeping the first and some random later consonants (and sometimes consonants that aren’t in the word at all) without using punctuation: Dr, Mr, Ms, Mrs

I think it’s usually the first letter(s) and the last letter(s). In older English handwritings I’ve come across M.ʳ etc. So I think that’s were those came from.

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uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
In the Speedwriting shorthand system, developed in 1924 for use with typewriter, / Is used to denote omitted sylables, so ‘with’ becomes w/ and ‘without’ becomes w/o. Here is a pretty deep guide on the precepts of Speedwriting:

www.reddit.com/r/Classic_Speedwriting/…/list108/

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- squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But shouldn’t “w/o” then be written as “w/o/”?
  
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  - uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah. I have no evidence that this system invented those shortcuts, they may predate it by quite a bit
    
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    squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, it’s really hard to pinpoint such simple inventions.
    
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