rules and regs

First of all, the writers of the Abbrevetionary take great pride in their abbreves and defs. Therefore, there are no 2nd-grade-Instant-Msging-types of abbreves such as LOL, LMAO, brb, g2g, ttyl, wtf, etc. That's just Busch league. The abbreves you learn here are real abbreves that you can and will use in every day convos. Honestly, who says LOL out loud? If your hand is raised, you’re toolbag, and you should probs go re-assess your life. Don't worry, there's still time to learn how to be cool. So sit back and relax, and get ready to abbreve your heart out.

You cannot abbreve 1 syl words. You can, howevs add an “s” or an “ie” to the end.
Bc one cannot abbreviate one syllable words, like 'phone' or 'brew,' it is acceptable to add the suffix "-ski" to the end of it. For examp: brewski. This comes in handy espesh in situations like this:
You and your bestie are having a quick chatski ab smthg supes impt and und cov, but there's this d.bag listening near by who you don't want to let hear your discush. The more abbreves and 'skis' and plurals (like saying tabes for table) you throw around, the less likely they are to understand. thus, crisis averted.

On some of the abbreve entries, you might see letters in parentheses after the entries. like (s) (ie). This is bc you can add an 's' or 'ie' to the end, or maybs there was a little conflict ab the orig abbreve. whatevs, in these cases, you can pick whichev sty you want to use.

Aft the abbreve and = sign, you may see a word in brackets []. This is how you pronounce the abbreve. Some abbreves are accrobreves like OOC, HMP, FB. Here you just say the letters (it will say 'just say the letters' in the brackets).

Words that end in -ion are a bit tricky. For examp: conversation- In the conversation def you will see it written as "conversat" but pronounced in the brackets as "conversaysh." You would write it the first way and pronounce it the second. If you were to actually write it the way it is pronounced you wouldn't really be abbreving bc you would be taking off the -tion but adding the -ysh, which is really only knocking off 1 letter. However, if you write it as "conversat," you are knocking off 3 letters.

"OMG why are some abbreves in orange and some in blue?!" you must be thinking. Take it easy Peter Panic, there is a reas. There are abbreves that are spoken as the full word, but abbreved when written. These abbreves are solely for the purpose of writing faster- A lifesaver during class. Throughout the abbreves and examp sentences, you can ID these written only abbreves by the blue text. The reg abbreves that you speak and write are in orange text. If you don't understand an orange word, don't fret- they def will be somewhere in the Abbrevetionary. Orange words that have a * at the end of them are not elsewhere in the Abbrevetionary (bc they're not that big of a dealio), but are id'd below the examp sentence.

So hopef you give = credit to these abbreves that are to be written as abbreves, and spoken like the real words they are. I mean, what are you going to do w/ all this extra time you gain in class by abbreving? Draw an intricate doods, catch a few extra glances at the hottie hott in front of you? Your decis!