<p>what does w/ mean?</p>
<p>w/ means “with.” For example:</p>
<p>w/honors = with honors</p>
<p>In rare cases, c/ can be used instead. It means the same thing. The c/ stands for “cum,” the Latin word for with.</p>
<p>oh, i see.</p>
<p>wouldn’t it be to easier to just write “with”?</p>
<p>I almost always use “w/” since it is a little shorter than “with.”</p>
<p>I use it when I’m handwriting stuff. Typing, it depends.</p>
<p>how much time would it save you when writing…a second? I don’t see the need.</p>
<p>People abbreviate the word “year” all the time. Is there that much of a difference between “year” and “yr.”? No. It just becomes a habit after awhile.</p>
<p>I only abbreviate when I have limited space. Like my AIM sn. it ends: “…Yr” only because there was no more space for the rest of the word.</p>
<p>It’s shorthand, and yes it does save time. Obviously nothing’s going to save you whole minutes of time or something, unless it’s a word that’s a thousand letters long.</p>
<p>I don’t use abbreviations very often either…
but w/ is pretty common.</p>
<p>I know a 28 letter word.
Abbreviate this for me:</p>
<p>Antidisestabishmentarianism.</p>
<p>google it if you don’t believe me.</p>
<p>Haha, first off you missed an “L” (…establishment…) and besides, I meant words that you’ll actually ever have to write in real life.</p>
<p>oh, I missed that.</p>
<p>actually, I used it for an essay at school once. The teacher asked me what it meant btw.</p>
<p>you could abbreviate it as:
anti-estism.</p>
<p>but that doesn’t really make any sense, does it?
Anti-estism sounds like a real word, ot an abbreviation.</p>
<p>lol, it’s still an abbreviation whether you understand it or not…</p>
<p>lol. I guess so.
who else has really long words? can anyone beat 28 chars?</p>
<p>yeah… hold on while I find one…</p>
<p>good luck
now I’m just writing because I want to waste time because of the stupid stpid 60 second rule and I know that It still won’t let me post in the end.</p>
<p>Longest Words
(45) PNEUMONO<em>ULTRA</em>MICRO<em>SCOPIC</em>SILICO<em>VOLCANO</em>CONIOSIS (also spelled PNEUMONO<em>ULTRA</em>MICRO<em>SCOPIC</em>SILICO<em>VOLCANO</em>KONIOSIS) = a lung disease caused by breathing in particles of siliceous volcanic dust.
This is the longest word in any English dictionary. However, it was coined by Everett Smith, the President of The National Puzzlers’ League, in 1935 purely for the purpose of inventing a new “longest word”. The Oxford English Dictionary described the word as factitious. Nevertheless it also appears in the Webster’s, Random House, and Chambers dictionaries.</p>
<p>(37) HEPATICO<em>CHOLANGIO</em>CHOLECYST<em>ENTERO</em>STOMIES = a surgical creation of a connection between the gall bladder and a hepatic duct and between the intestine and the gall bladder.
This is the longest word in Gould’s Medical Dictionary.</p>
<p>(34) SUPER<em>CALI</em>FRAGI<em>LISTIC</em>EXPI<em>ALI</em>DOCIOUS = song title from the Walt Disney movie Mary Poppins.
It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.</p>
<p>“But then one day I learned a word
That saved me achin’ nose,
The biggest word you ever 'eard,
And this is 'ow it goes:
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!”</p>
<p>(30) HIPPOPOTO<em>MONSTRO</em>SESQUIPED<em>AL</em>IAN = pertaining to a very long word.
From Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words.</p>
<p>(29) FLOCCI<em>NAUCINI</em>HILIPIL<em>IFICATION = an estimation of something as worthless.
This is the longest word in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Interestingly the most common letter in English, E, does not appear in this word at all, whilst I occurs a total of nine times. The word dates back to 1741. The 1992 Guinness Book of World Records calls flocci</em>nauci<em>nihili</em>pilification the longest real word in the Oxford English Dictionary, and refers to pneumono<em>ultra</em>micro<em>scopic</em>silico<em>volcano</em>koniosis as the longest made-up one.</p>