Department of english language and literature course paper

II.Homonymic abbreviations

As many abbreviations are homonymic with standard with words, their proper recognition may be difficult.Tab.1 gives a list of such homonymic abbreviations.In the first column I give their shapes, attaching their interpretation in the second and their homonyms in the third:

If for a given unit the frequency of the abbreviation reading is significantly higher than that of the other reading and if the abbreviation belongs to the non-final type we will assume that the period is not a CM.In the segmentation process they have been treated as non-final abbreviations; hence , respective periods are not CMs.The word min. which have never appeared as the genitive plural word-form of the noun MINA very often represents the abbreviation for MINUTA “minute’.This abbreviation itself does not belong to the class of non-final ones.