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    Abbreviations (English exercise n°42886 - Please quote this number when contacting us)


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    Abbreviations

                                             ABREVIATIONS

     GB

     Les lettres (majuscules) GB sont les initiales des deux mots  Great Britain

     Great Britain is composed of three countries: England, Scotland and Wales

     UK

     United Kingdom (Royaume Uni) It's the union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

     

     EU

      the European Union                          

     USA

       the United  States of America          Born in the USA  (song by Bruce Springsteen)

     BBC

       British Broadcasting Corporation          les locaux de la BBC (Londres) 

     WWW

       world wide web   littéralement 'la toile (d'araignée) mondiale'

        s'écrit aussi W3, appelé plus communément web ou toile    

     FBI

       Federal  Bureau of Investigation   (Washington D.C. , district of Columbia)

                                        agents à l'entraînement          

      SMS

        Short  Message  Service    

      FAQ  

        Frequently Asked  Questions

      UFO

       Unidentified Flying Object    parmi les objets volants non identifiés se trouvent

                                                                            les soucoupes volantes (flying saucers)    (Angleterre 2002)

      lorsque ces abréviations ont quatre lettres ou plus on les écrit souvent en lettres minuscules

          et on n'énonce pas les lettres une à une on les prononce comme un mot.

      unesco

             organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture

     The Taj-Mahal has been included on unesco's world heritage list    

     (on utilise  ' 's ' pour le cas possessif) 

        United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund

     laser

        Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

       pour former certaines abréviations on ne prend pas uniquement les initiales mais une partie des mots 

     interpol

      International Criminal Police Organization

      It's the world's largest international police organization with 186 member countries 

     internet

      International Network :   internet est un réseau informatique mondial  

      ce réseau permer d'utiliser des services comme le World Wide Web ou le courrier électronique.

      Internet n'est pas le Web

      le Web est un système qui utilise internet pour consulter des pages mises en ligne dans les sites

      Remarques:

     1) Il existe des abréviations anciennes

        AM (du latin ante meridiem): before noon      Every morning I get up at 7 am

        PM (du latin post meridiem): after noon         I leave my office at 5 pm

        Augustus was the first emperor of the Roman Empire : he ruled from 27  BC ( before Christ)

                                                                                                          until his death in 14 AD (anno domini)

        In 1948 M. Cerdan became a world champion, he beat Tony Zale by a KO (Knock Out)

        L'origine de OK ne semble plus faire débat.

        Ce serait l'abréviation de 'all correct' (que l'on orthographiait Oll Korrect) parue pour la première fois

       dans le Boston Morning Post en 1839.

      2) Au début ces abréviations étaient écrites avec des points  B.B.C. la tendance est à supprimer ces points.

      3) Quand une abréviation peut se prononcer comme un mot c'est un acronyme

           radar, sonar sont des acronymes

      4) Ces abréviations prennent la marque du pluriel

           Le pluriel de CD (Compact Disc) est CD

          et on peut utiliser le cas possessif:    In 1974 BBC 's teletext service was introduced                                  

      





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