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Modern Word Abbreviations

Can the guess the long form of these shortened words?
Some of these are very recent, others are "modern" as in the Modern Era
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First submittedFebruary 7, 2012
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fam
family
fab
fabulous
pic
picture
'za
pizza
'tude
attitude
delish
delicious
fave
favorite
obvi
obviously
ridic
ridiculous
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perp
perpetrator
lil'
little
peeps
people
app
application
bro
brother
'roid
steroid
'rents
parents
prolly
probably
totes
totally
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Long
telly
television
'burb
suburb
perv
pervert
congrats
congratulations
legit
legitimate
indie
independent
sus
suspicious
'cus
because
cuz
cousin
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Level 37
Feb 7, 2012
Do people even say half of these things? Like 'za, has anyone ever said that? Maybe in the US...
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Level 16
May 21, 2012
My dad says that, but I always thought that was him being weird
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Level 55
Jun 29, 2012
'Za is more "surfer" in my book. Telly is definitely more British than American.
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Level 17
Aug 24, 2012
Never ever even heard 'Za before...so confused!
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Level 77
May 10, 2013
It's an excellent word to remember for scrabble.
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2015
Alright... gimme some za, man, alright!
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Level 45
Jul 8, 2013
I live in the US and I've never heard pizza called Za before in my life.
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Level 66
Dec 9, 2014
When to college in New England in the 80s. Never heard Za.
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Level 68
Dec 9, 2014
From Los Angeles, heard "za." Have used it once or twice.
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Level 71
Dec 9, 2014
There's always one!
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Level 51
Dec 16, 2014
Having seen the picture, I typed in "za" 2 or 3 times before reading the directions.
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Level 84
Sep 23, 2016
I've lived in the U.S. for 367 years and have never once heard anyone call it "za". I know Yanks can be as lazy as anyone, but is "pizza" really that exhaustin....whew, man, I need to take a break. :-P
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Level 75
Nov 11, 2021
Abbreviations are not used because people are 'lazy', but rather because it's the natural evolution of language.
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Level 65
Nov 18, 2021
I would call it more degradation than evolution. I agree with DonTheLamplighter. I think laziness most certainly does play a part in these abbreviations. as well as the delusion that it makes you look cool to use them.
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2021
There is a restaurant in my town called Mia Za's, a pizza joint.
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Level 31
Dec 13, 2014
Toppers Pizza.
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Level 59
Nov 6, 2016
Never heard 'za in my life but guessed it.
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Level 36
May 3, 2023
daaaang
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Level 83
May 13, 2018
I only ever heard the stoner pizza delivery guy in the film Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny say "'za"
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Level 43
Feb 12, 2021
My sister's nickname is "Za Za" so my Dad always said that she should open a pizzeria and call it "Za Za's 'Zas".
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Level 77
Dec 7, 2021
but your sister already has a pizza chain named after her...Little Caesars..."Pizza Pizza"
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Level 88
Nov 18, 2021
I think "sus" became popular because of Among Us. I've never heard anyone say "sus" until people started playing that game.
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Level 37
Nov 18, 2021
people used it instead of saying gay before among us got popular.
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Level 69
Nov 18, 2021
Yeah it did, also came in a lot of memes
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Level 70
Nov 20, 2021
i'd seen it plenty of times, it also became used vaguely as a homophobic slur
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Level 63
Nov 22, 2021
Used in Aus well before the game came out.
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Level 70
Apr 17, 2022
it was never a slur? at least in the UK
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Level 55
Nov 18, 2021
Not in the US, I've never heard anyone say almost any of these.
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Level 25
Nov 18, 2021
I have never heard anyone say a few of these words. Funny.
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Level 36
May 3, 2023
I am american and have never heard of most of those '[word] phrases, including 'za
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Level 75
Jul 5, 2023
Bro, obvi we say a lil' 'za prolly when the peeps come to the 'burb while the 'rents are out so I send a pic to my cuz and the other fam 'bout my fave indie flic on the telly
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Level 14
Feb 7, 2012
Imagine using all of these words in one sentence... LOLOLOLOL
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Level 64
Jan 9, 2015
My fab fam and I were with my cuz and his bro out in the 'burbs watching our fave indie movie on the telly (the cop flick where the perp is a total perv and looks in peeps' windows) when my 'rents decided to take a pic of us using that Instagram app, but we had some gas from the 'za we cooked out on the barbie (totes delish, btw) and couldn't sit still, which made them think we were all copping a 'tude and prolly on 'roids (which was a lil ridic, tbh, 'cus we were obvi in some legit pain), and they got all pissed and said, "congrats for ruining our special family moment."
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Level 85
Apr 17, 2015
Bravo!
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Level 42
Jun 4, 2015
Hurrah!
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Level 55
Aug 3, 2015
That's amazing.
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Level 84
Sep 23, 2016
(golf clap)
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Level 59
Nov 6, 2016
Good job!
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Level 56
Dec 30, 2016
Best thing i've seen yet
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Level 34
May 28, 2017
Love this!
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Level 93
Jun 20, 2017
brilliant!
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Level 83
May 13, 2018
You cook pizza on a barbecue?
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
why not, I ve eaten pizza from a microwave...(and no not micrwave oven, but the dough is precooked so not totally raw anymore...)
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Level 76
Oct 28, 2019
Lil improvement on the last sentence: "our special fam mo." :)
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Level 88
Mar 9, 2020
Sounds like a family with brousins somewhere along the line.
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Level 36
Nov 11, 2021
lol! great job
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Level 65
Nov 18, 2021
Nice!
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2021
Fun police here. You have two coordinating conjunctions in this sentence, making it a RUN ON SENTENCE! Ha ha! I gotcha!
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Level 61
Feb 7, 2012
za is an acceptable Scrabble word now, amazingly. I've never heard it in the US.
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Level 37
Feb 7, 2012
It doesnt bother me when people write these shortened versions in short text messages. Some of them are ok to hear spoken. But when people start using them in formal conversations or documents, or using them as if they were legitimate* words, i feel great sorrow for civilization.
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Level 70
Jan 3, 2019
Yes. We should absolutely do away with all "illegitimate" words. Like texting (was originally text messaging), phone (originally telephone), gym (originally gymnasium), pea (originally pease. All of these were (probably originally viewed as incorrect) shortenings of words or phrases, and all have moved into common usage.
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2021
In formal writing you should still use the terms "gymnasium", "telephone", and "text messaging" as opposed to informal shortened versions. Additionally, Internet should always be capitalized. As someone who reads a lot of amateur essays, I find informal writing annoying and tedious to correct all the time. Additionally, informal language makes language gaps worse, so academics are totally within their right to criticize informal language in academic work.
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Level 72
Nov 19, 2021
old-man-yells-at-cloud.jpeg
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Level 69
Feb 8, 2012
Hotel = Telly, check the song Ebonics by Big L.
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Level 32
Feb 16, 2012
I haven't heard quite a few of these honestly. I got most of them, but nobody actually says them...
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
I think teens do, or the more shallow people that try to be populair (no offense, but well they do excist and do have their lingo).

I think only pic,app, congrats and indie are in normal use. Bro is common, but more informal then the above. (you could use those with say your neighbour, but unless you are best buddies you would not use bro)

And telly and barbie are rather common too under a wide public ( not just a subculture of specefic age or lifestyle)

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Level 63
Oct 28, 2019
Actually, many of these words are not modern in the slightest, such as 'rents, which is a word my 65 year old dad uses, and is completely shocked that NO ONE uses it any more. Same goes for words like 'lil, which also has gone out of fashion - I have never seen it in print at all except for when I was reading some Donald Duck comics from the 80s when I was growing up.
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Level 58
Apr 7, 2020
as a thirteen year old, i definitely don't use any of these on a daily basis, except maybe bro/bru, congrats, app, and prolly.
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Level 36
Nov 18, 2021
nah I'm 13 too and use almost all of these
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
Your comment is totes sus brah.
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Level 11
Feb 24, 2012
couldn't spell television. so stupid.
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Level 75
Nov 18, 2021
No, dude. You spelled it right. Check again.
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Level 41
Apr 13, 2012
Easy :)
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Level 34
Jul 1, 2014
For telly, telephone? idk
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Level 36
Aug 20, 2014
Every single one of these annoy the crap out of me, along with lol, lmao, rofl, btw and plenty more.
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Level 66
Jan 3, 2018
omg.
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
pic too and app? And well Indie games were never réally know under other names (and it wasnt after years I figured out what it was.. indiana? thought it was just a new word)

many of these are highly annoying but pic and app are as common as photo and vet to me.

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Level 75
Nov 18, 2021
Indie was originally used to refer to movies like 100 years ago and music slightly more recently. You're right, it's definitely not a new term!
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Level 68
Nov 23, 2021
That was totally me taking this quiz. Indonesia, India, Indiana?? I knew what it meant, but thought it was just its own word.
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Level 58
Nov 18, 2021
lol
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Level 25
Nov 7, 2014
100% Woohoo! Anyone else?
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2021
Yep. Though I had a Mesopotamian moment and thought sus could be short for abacus :P
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Level 70
Nov 10, 2014
no one says indie for independent
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Level 38
Dec 9, 2014
What are you talking about, Indie movies are huge, the Indie Film Festival every year is proof of that.

Indie music has its own category on Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora.

Indie games are also a category of games on their own. Go on Steam or other game providers and you will see the Indie category amongst others. Indie is probably one of the most popular ones there.

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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
I think he was thinking of the normal use of the word. In any other place indepedent wont be replaced by indie. A kid that wants to leave home to stay on his own doesnt say I want to be indie..

And indeed I think many may not have realised it. I know I didnt use to know it. I had only heard indie games and indie movies and never independent games... Allways saw it as a word on its own, but was really curious why they used that word ( quarter still didnt dropped) Untill I finally knew what it was, cant remember how I found it out though, if I actively looked it up and found out some other way.

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Level 61
Apr 29, 2016
It's probably the most common one on here, to the point people use it without realising it's a shortening.
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Level 70
Nov 18, 2021
Indie music has been around since the 1980s and was originally termed because it was released on independent labels that were not the big commercial labels
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Level 57
Dec 9, 2014
Some are irritating. I admit I do say delish quite often. But as michaelwalling says, Indie bands and Indie films are recognised genres. And who doesn't say TV or telly for television?
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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
or App for application... have you ever heard an ad say you should "download our application"
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
In my language it is tv (pronounced tay-vay, not tee-vee) and televisie and I think I used both about equal amounts, maybe slightly in favour of tv but not much, 60/40 at most.

Slightly dependent on the sentences, I'd say I am watching tv, but would say the television is broken (i guess in that cause in english you might say tv-set..)

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Level 54
Dec 9, 2014
Thank goodness the picture on this quiz is a slice of pizza, because I NEVER would have gotten 'Za without it!
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Level 54
Dec 9, 2014
Nobody should be allowed to say any of these things!
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
agree with most, but dont tell me you never said pic, app, or maybe even congrats (not sure about how often that one is said in english)
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Level 37
Dec 9, 2014
Would not have got 'Za if it wasn't for the picture of Pizza.
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Level 71
Sep 21, 2017
I tried Za Za Gabor!
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Level 56
Dec 9, 2014
I've seen both "cus" and "cuz" to say "because". "Cousin" would just be "cous" for me. You have to wonder though, do people really say "steroid" and "perpetrator" so much they need to shorten them?
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Level 38
Dec 9, 2014
Yes, and yes.

"Roid Rage" is a common phrase. I've used perp a number of times while studying court cases and police scenes.

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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
I would imagine cops had to use the term perpetrator a whole lot and they came up with the shortened perp, which then everyone else picks up from television and movies based on cops.
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Level 75
Dec 29, 2014
So would two cousins be couscous?
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
And ap(p)titude is an application with attitude.. ;)
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Level 24
Nov 24, 2017
I have only heard "steds" for steroids. It is commonly used in street drug dealing
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Level 82
Dec 9, 2014
I missed one because apparently I can't spell barbecue correctly...
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Level 83
Dec 9, 2014
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Level 83
Dec 9, 2014
I'm not sure where I heard it but in my head I hear someone with a very exaggerated California surfer accent referring to his pizza as 'za. It must have been in some movie or TV show.
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Level 83
May 13, 2018
I placed it. It was the Tenacious D movie.
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Level 59
Sep 9, 2019
Way to stick with it.
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Level 77
Dec 9, 2014
Thanks to hanging around with my 20-something nieces I only missed one -- not bad for a 52 year old. I missed, "za". Oddly hadn't heard that one, especially since unlike most folks my age, I still rank pizza as one of my four basic food groups! Fun Quiz!
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Level 56
Dec 9, 2014
After two years we can deduce that 'Za is just not a common shortening (lots of people didn't know it) and that a lot of people apparently used the word 'indie' without ever realising what word it was replacing. I quite like the fact that 'obvi' wasn't obvious, as well as not being actually "obvious". But I have to say that is also one I've never heard being used.

Last thing, guess what date this quiz suddenly just turned up on the popular list?

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Level 76
Dec 9, 2014
you should add "vacay" (for vacation). highly irritating!!!
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Level 66
Dec 10, 2014
I've heard za for pizza exactly once in my life. I thought it was just that person being stupid. I didn't realize it was a thing.
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Level 19
Dec 10, 2014
Any other nerds out there who tried "droid" for 'Roid? Anyone...?
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Level 75
Dec 29, 2014
Worse, I tried android.
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2021
Even worse, I tried both!
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Level 68
Dec 11, 2014
I feel as if "za" takes longer to say than "pizza" does.
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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
that's some strange pronunciation then
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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
btw none of these are really meant to save time saying them. I don't know why people get so stuck on that.
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Level 63
Dec 12, 2014
'Za just bugs me. Who the hell thought of that? A pizza is something so wonderful and gracious - can't just call it 'Za. Sounds dumb too.
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Level 45
Dec 16, 2014
Ridic isn't that modern...I recently saw it used in "The Lost Weekend" which won the Best Picture Oscar in the 1940s. I had also thought it was a modern term, maybe it went out and came back like our crazy language tends to do!
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Level 75
Dec 29, 2014
Is za pronounced zah or zuh?
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
Zah
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Level 68
Mar 24, 2015
Who evens says obvi? Let's just shorten every word in the English language for the sake of convenience.
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Level 59
May 13, 2018
You mean convene.
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
And langie
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Level 82
Jun 11, 2015
I thought cuz for cousin was ancient... though I might be thinking of cos. One of them is in Romeo and Juliet.

I got most of them, including indie, which for a long time I thought stood for "Indian".

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Level 71
Oct 28, 2019
I think that you are thinking of `cos`, I believe 'cuz' is more of a modern hip-hop slang thing, I feel like it's the kind of thing snoop dogg would say.
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Level 37
Oct 4, 2015
Does anyone else see a missed opportunity in not having Barbie as Barbara Millicent Roberts?
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Level 59
Feb 20, 2016
I always think telly as a telephone. Can that be acceptable??
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
I have never heard of thay being a thing. Then again I dont know everyone.. but telly for tv is used by millions so if phone didnt work, you'd obvi try tv wouldnt you?
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Level 27
Feb 29, 2016
Some of these make no sense... At all
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Level 69
Nov 5, 2016
This surely is how people talk in the US 'cause I've never heard of half of them.
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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
I doubt there are very many people anywhere who use all of these. people pick and choose, and I think it's more likely to use one of the shortenings if it's a word you use often, hence "perp" most likely originating from police officers.
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Level 37
Apr 21, 2018
"Perp" most definitely originated with the police, as did D/T/ P/O (Date, Time and Place of Occurrence); RDO (Regular Day Off) "Vic" (Victim);

NHI (No Human Involved) and a host of other abbreviations meant to

make their written reports less cumbersome.

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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
Hearing of them and using them are two totally different (totes diff..) things though.
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Level 55
Nov 28, 2016
Legit's a real word though lol
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Level 71
Jun 22, 2017
wow, just looked it up and according to oxford english dictionary, it is indeed a word.
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Level 52
Oct 18, 2017
Legit is legit.
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Level 71
Feb 4, 2017
Some of these are "modern" the way the Walkman is modern.
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Level 28
Mar 1, 2017
i never heard someone call pizza 'za.
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Level 37
Jun 22, 2017
Except for 'za, I've heard them all though Telly and Barbie are more common Anglo/Australian rather than American usage.
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Level 57
Sep 6, 2017
I kept trying to write "Android" for 'Roid...
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Level 55
Jan 27, 2018
noone uses most of these tbh
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Level 64
Mar 19, 2018
That's how you definitely detroy a language...Now, I get that!
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
deffo!
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Level 74
Nov 18, 2021
You must be thinking of the Detroyjan Horse. Not endemic garden-variety language processes.
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Level 44
Apr 30, 2018
The USA, where the English language died
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Level 35
Jun 16, 2018
...and went to hell!...
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Level 68
Apr 30, 2018
I would've said 'obvs' is more slang for obviously than 'obvi'. Never heard obvi in my life...
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
Same !! I thought it was just me and my memory playing tricks on me !!
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Level 68
Nov 18, 2021
I agree, obvs
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Level 68
May 13, 2018
Surprised about all the people who never heard za. Where I live, it's not common, but it's used sometimes.
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
"Any word that I don't know is a word that doesn't exist".
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Level 34
May 13, 2018
It's weird that only a little over %50 of people got "pizza", even though it is the cover picture
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Level 83
May 13, 2018
Maybe they spent all their time typing in "peeperoni"... or "perperoni"
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
Why is that weird? without the picture it would have been like 2 percent.
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Level 55
Jun 13, 2018
I did not get za in spite of the picture, I find most of these absolutely ghastly! ugh
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Level 88
Jun 28, 2018
This quiz makes me want to punch an advertiser or market developer
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Level 37
Oct 12, 2018
I am convinced that most of these "word shortenings" are created by adolescents with the intent of driving adults insane. I wanted to strangle my nephew at least twice a week when he was a teen! His language deteriorated from "What's up", to "Wassup", to "S'up".
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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
better than wazzzaaaa

And maybe the previous generation(s) thought the same, from goodday to hello, to hey to hi.

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Level 65
Jun 17, 2019
I hate most of these "words" sooo much. And things normally do not bother me easily.

I am totally fine with pic bro and app, they are rather normall. But totes and obvs etc brrrr I nearly get goosebumps from it. And a little nauseous..

Btw do people really say za??? never heard of it and wouldnt have gotten it if it wasnt for the pic. (tried whatsup, like wazza, and then thought maybe thatsall 'sall => 'za. I guess in my mind I read it as a long za, zaaahhh and with pizza I suppose it is short??? I really cant imagine it being used in a sentence..)

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Level 88
Mar 9, 2020
Bro is by far away the most insufferable. It drops the speaker to about zero on the taken seriously scale.
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Level 69
Nov 18, 2021
I don't know. Pronouncing probably as prolly is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Totes is a close second. Bro seems pretty inoffensive by comparison. (Depends on usage, though).
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Level 52
Oct 28, 2019
Silly. But an easy 5 points, even for a grandma!!
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Level 63
Oct 28, 2019
Plenty of these words have gone out of fashion, and would not be considered modern in the slightest, such as 'za, 'rents, ridic, 'lil and peeps. The only people who tend to use these words (look at the comment section for example) are our parents who are in their 60s or older. Hardly modern then, are they, if they have already gone out of fashion?
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
Given how many rappers are named "Lil", I'd say that one is far more popular than ever. "Peeps" probably peaked around the time of that Shaggy song.

But yeah, "rents" is old-fashioned now.

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Level 35
Aug 9, 2020
A highschool girl pops into my head when I read these words..
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Level 75
Feb 16, 2021
Allow "Individual" please?
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Level 75
Nov 10, 2021
Also allow "suspicious"
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Level 79
Nov 10, 2021
isn't "sus" also short for suspicious?
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Level 88
Nov 10, 2021
+1 for allowing suspicious
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
Suspicious is actually the better answer. Changed it. Thanks.
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Level 68
Nov 10, 2021
Cos is probably more common than ‘cus

Also obvs instead of obvi? Who says obvi?

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Level 79
Nov 10, 2021
I'm in UK. Have only heard 13/27 of these. Who says 'za or obvi?
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Level 89
Nov 10, 2021
How about 'zee? Short for lazy.
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Level 57
Nov 10, 2021
'Zee is what you type when you're too 'zee to write it out.
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Level 91
Nov 10, 2021
Knew them all but 'rents.

Had never heard that one before.

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Level 88
Nov 10, 2021
Hemorrhoids were called roids long before steroids became the rage.
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Level 87
Nov 10, 2021
Might be an age thing, but Wikipedia recognizes both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roids
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Level 80
Nov 10, 2021
Another appropriate answer for "fab" could be "fabricate" or "fabrication" (at least, it's very common in the blue collar working world). I got the correct answer, so NBD either way.
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Level 84
Nov 10, 2021
Thanks to Rick Beato, I now know about sus chords. Maybe "suspended" should be allowed as an answer.
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Level 85
Nov 10, 2021
Seems like all the kids now say "bruh" instead of "bro"
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Level 58
Nov 18, 2021
bruh is more of an exclamation and bro is what people call their friends or just someone they know
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Level 71
Nov 10, 2021
You know you're too much of a foodie when the first thing that comes to mind when you hear 'app' is appetizer and not application. But I still think it should be accepted or replaced.
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Level ∞
Nov 10, 2021
Appetizer will work now.
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Level 57
Nov 10, 2021
Shouldn't 'pro' (for 'professional') be on here? It's pretty much the token word shortening.
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Level 36
Nov 11, 2021
i thought "cuz" more commonly meant because, so i looked it up and it says the meaning is because

please accept because for both "cuz" "cus"

from the dictionary:

cuz1

/kəz/

conjunctionINFORMAL

because.

"I don't have much money to buy games cuz I'm a student"

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Level 77
Nov 17, 2021
Went with "because" first, then "cause" then, finally, the requested answer. Thank you one friend who uses cuz for that.
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Level 53
Nov 11, 2021
Are some of these made up? Never in my life have I heard half of these.
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Level 75
Nov 13, 2021
I ate 'za last night without having any idea anyone anywhere has ever called it that.
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Level 60
Nov 18, 2021
You should include "sesh" for session.

Oh, and "info".

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Level 62
Nov 18, 2021
sus
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Level 57
Nov 18, 2021
Yo what kinda loser doesn't know all this diction
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Level 72
Nov 18, 2021
With all this talk about pizza, is anyone else hungry now?
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Level 45
Nov 18, 2021
no way 'rents and 'burb are real thing not where I'm from at least
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Level 69
Nov 18, 2021
Some of these are very odd. But nice idea for a quiz. Only got za cos I think Brian said it on Family Guy once or something.
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Level 53
Nov 18, 2021
Way too easy. But dumb. Maybe a reflection of society, unfortunately. Cannot spell or be bothered to write anything longer than a couple of syllables.
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Level 64
Nov 18, 2021
sus amogus
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Level 78
Nov 18, 2021
Got all but 'tude!!
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Level 61
Nov 18, 2021
A 50 year old American father who still thinks he's young definitely made this quiz...
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Level 57
Nov 18, 2021
The only one I missed was 'rents. I thought parents might be it but then thought that sounded stupid. I should have stuck with my gut on this.
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Level 56
Nov 18, 2021
"'Rents" seems out of date, honestly.
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Level 66
Nov 18, 2021
doh Only missed za

Didn't look at the picture

Must remember to look at picture

Must remember to look at picture

Must remember to look at picture

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Level 36
Nov 18, 2021
prob is also abbreviation for probably
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Level 58
Nov 18, 2021
You know your generation is doomed when you recognize most of these without even being from an English speaking country.... I'm from Germany and I absolutely hate it when people use words like "bro", "legit" or "fam" in a GERMAN conversation. And believe me when I say it happens very often. They use "nice" instead of "gut", "fresh" instead of "schick", "lost" instead of "verloren" and so on. It really has become a tragedy. Our traditional German dialects are dying out and they get replaced by that shit?
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Level 21
Nov 19, 2021
Perpetual is actually commonly shortened as "Perp". Would be nice if you accepted that.
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Level 66
Nov 19, 2021
When the perp is sus
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Level 53
Nov 21, 2021
Some of these aren't really "modern." Like I'm pretty sure cuz is in Romeo and Juliet, might be wrong tho.
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Level 63
Nov 22, 2021
I can't believe I didn't get because. I've always used it as 'coz'
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Level 77
Dec 7, 2021
This is one of the few quizzes on this site that I feel has made me dumber somehow.
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Level 55
Apr 20, 2022
Can you please accept "individual" for indie?
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Level 56
Sep 5, 2023
this is so inaccurate nobody says za or tude or ridic or rents or perp or telly (unless you're bri'ish) or cuz for cousins, cuz is another one for because, also bc, obviously is obv, totes is outdated, peeps is someone out of the loop tryna (trying to, there another one) sound cool especially at like a church camp of something, indie is for games, burbs is for adults mainly cuz high schoolers don't talk about suburbs, fam and fab are also pretty dated they belong in like 2014

source: i am in high school rn