I woke up last night going 'WAIT, WHY DO WE ABBREVIATE WORDS IN THE WAYS WE DO?' and couldn't stop thinking about it. I'm going to research some common abbreviations off the top of my head and see whether there's a pattern.
aeroplane (Greek, 'air wanderer'): plane ('wanderer')
influenza (Latin via Italian, 'influence'): flu (just a syllable that
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