Word Shortenings Quiz #3

Any chance you might consider "psychotic" for "psycho"?

One minute for the quiz and another minute to figure out that people abbreviate parachute to chute. I was quite confused, thinking a laundry chute is somehow abbreviated. Chuticle?

Thanks for accepting "aeroplane" but isn't "airplane" a shortening of "aeroplane"? Feels odd to have a shortening as the displayed answer.

Also I got stuck on "methylamine" and "methadone" for "meth". Are these incorrect? Not sure.

I've now completed the entire Word Games series!

"Till" is not a shortening of "until". Rather, "until" relates to "till" in the same way that "unto" relates to "to".

i feel like i hear "sec" as a shortening for "secretary" frequently enough. in the context of "yvette cooper is the new Home Sec", or "United Nations Gen. Sec." and that sort of thing

i tried syncopate / syncopation several times for the 'sync' one :,)))

would that be acceptable, maybe?

No one:

Me:

Thought “fan” was the thing that spins air