Word Shortenings Quiz #1

Guess the long form of these shortened words.

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First submitted	January 3, 2012
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Average score	83.3%
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Short	Long
Camo	Camouflage
Photo	Photograph
Math	Mathematics
Ad	Advertisement
Admin	Administrator
Ammo	Ammunition
Phone	Telephone
Info	Information
Intro	Introduction
Tux	Tuxedo

Short	Long
Lab	Laboratory
Lab	Labrador
Gym	Gymnasium
Limo	Limousine
Max	Maximum
Memo	Memorandum
Rehab	Rehabilitation
Sax	Saxophone
Ump	Umpire
Veggie	Vegetable

Short	Long
Vet	Veteran
Vet	Veterinarian
Vocab	Vocabulary
Zine	Magazine
Blog	Weblog
Flu	Influenza
Doc	Doctor
Hippo	Hippopotamus
Chimp	Chimpanzee
Disco	Discotheque

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101 Recent Comments

+15

Level 33

Jan 13, 2013

Never heard "Zine" for magazine.

Level 68

Aug 18, 2016

Same.

Level 20

Apr 24, 2013

gym could also be gymnastics, that's what we use it for over here?

Level 65

Jan 18, 2018

yeah but you go to the gym but not do gym

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

In my country that is exactly what you do, and I think that is the same for talia/ seems to be what talia is saying aswell.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

ps we dont go to the gym ( that sounds so weird, you have gymclass as a kid at school)>> The place you go to work out is a sportschool.

We have the word gymnaseum as a (direction of) school. If you have latin and greek on your curriculum.

Btw all these words come from the same place and is a "school" where the ancient greek (besides learning) used to excercise, naked. It literally means, place to be naked.

Level 37

Sep 26, 2013

i got 28 out of 30.

Level 32

Oct 9, 2013

missed veteran.. and i am one. what an idiot

Level 18

Feb 11, 2014

hero

Level 53

Nov 13, 2013

Somehow I only missed Ad ahaha, kept thinking addition or after death haha, i know that's AD though :D

Level 76

Dec 11, 2013

Actually AD does not mean after death. It is a Latin abbreviation for Anno Domini which means the year of our Lord. Therefore BC is before the birth of Jesus, AD is after his birth.

Level 45

Jun 16, 2014

Yeah, once somebody was reading aloud from a National Geographic thing, talking about a pharaoh who built something(this was a long time ago, so I don't remember the details) in some date A.D., and somebody else asked 'What's A.D. mean?' and they said 'after death', and now I look back and think how did I not catch that, it's so ridiculous! He can't build something after his own death!

Level 81

Jan 23, 2015

Well he was also supposedly born during the reign of Herod and Herod died in 4 BC.

Level 68

Mar 24, 2015

Yeah, leave it to our calendar to mess up by five or six whole years... better than the Julian, I guess.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

em... I am pretty sure the death refered to was jesus' one. (while a.d is actually counting from the birth of jesus, so it is not that ridiculous at all.

Seems kind of obvious to me that people thinking a.d is after death are talking about jesus...

Level 15

Jan 29, 2014

I didn't get some because I couldn't spell them. I need to go back to school I guess. D:

Level 18

Feb 11, 2014

I've never heard of anyone reading a "zine"

Level 67

Mar 14, 2014

I can't believe I got 29/30 but managed to miss "Ad".

*facepalm*

Level 40

Apr 19, 2014

I kept trying to type Ammunation for Ammunition! Grand Theft Auto has seeped too far into my brain...

Level 55

May 4, 2014

got all except ump, ive never heard that used and i dont know what an umpire is.

Level 51

Jul 1, 2015

An umpire is a referee.

Level 30

Jun 5, 2016

Referee for Tennis and apparently Baseball too. Probably some others...

Level 33

May 15, 2014

Got 30/30, but I knew 26/30. Had to look up Labrador, Magazine, Discotheque, and Weblog

Level 76

Jan 23, 2015

Got 30/30, but I knew 0/30. Had to Google every single one of them. I cheat on my taxes, too.

Level 37

Aug 20, 2014

I would agree with EVERYONE ELSE that zine is short for fanzine, not magazine. "I-I-I-I-I-I wanna publish zines! And rage against machines!" Harvey Danger was talking fanzines there.

Level 17

Nov 26, 2014

25/30

Level 68

Jan 23, 2015

I missed phone but got discotheque. What am I doing with my life?

Level 68

Jan 23, 2015

Couldn't "gym" also by gymnast or gymnastics?

Level 75

Nov 23, 2015

"I've joined a gymnast?" "I'm working out at the gymnastics today?" No, in the US gym is definitely a place.

Level 72

Dec 5, 2015

In the UK we do use "gym" as a shortening of "gymnastics". "She's very good at gym." would certainly be a possible sentence.

Level 30

Jun 5, 2016

Agreed ^^

Level 75

Dec 5, 2019

You've taught me something new. In the US I've never heard a gymnast called a gym.

Level 44

Jan 23, 2015

I missed the phone call on this.. I kept trying phonogram.. facepalm!

Level 81

Jan 23, 2015

All too easy.

Level 57

Jan 23, 2015

Should accept Labour for lab. British abbreviation for the second largest political party.

Level 83

Mar 21, 2015

I think there's a distinction between an abbreviation and a "shortened word". Lab for labour is just a written abbreviation; no-one would actually say "a lab politician". All the ones in the quiz are things people say as well as write (except possibly "ump", which I've never heard anywhere else).

Level 81

Oct 27, 2020

But you will agree that Lib-Lab is a thing, right?

Level 85

Jan 23, 2015

Might consider adding Administrative as well for admin. That was my first try.

Level 52

Dec 9, 2016

I agree. Admin Asst or doing admin work.

Level 58

Jan 23, 2015

Missed memo and rehab

Level 78

Jan 23, 2015

Zine?

Level 38

Jan 23, 2015

I got all of them pretty quickly... except "phone". I could not for the life of me think of the word "telephone". I even tried "phonograph" :/

Level 23

Jan 24, 2015

Shouldn't veterinary be used for vet

Level 82

Feb 16, 2015

In the UK, 'Lab' is used as a short form for the Labour Party.

I think that you should allow 'Fanzine' for "Zine". I've only ever heard the expression Zine used in that context. Neat quiz. Thanks! :)

Level 21

Apr 11, 2015

Oops, put Saxyphone, not Saxophone.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

sexyphone..

Level 58

Jun 9, 2015

Can you accept camoflauge

Level 51

Jul 1, 2015

That's exactly how I spelled it for years. It seems more phonetic. Took me forever to remember the correct spelling.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

no , you say camuuu flage. in the full word you dont say it as an o like in camo (kemmo)

Level 69

Aug 19, 2021

Ok now that just sounds silly

Level 51

Jul 1, 2015

I had no idea before what blog and disco were short for. Honestly, I had no idea they were short for anything (though I knew what they were). Got the rest.

Level 75

Nov 23, 2015

Easy peasy and fun for me.

Level 32

Dec 30, 2015

"weblog" was the death of me...

Level 46

Jan 18, 2016

100 percent in 3 34

Level 46

Jan 18, 2016

IT RELOADED IN THE FINAL QUESTION

Level 47

Apr 7, 2016

In the UK, Lab is short for Labour. Can this be accepted?

Level 79

Aug 16, 2016

In the UK we call Veterinarians Veterinary Surgeons. Please could you add this as a possible answer. thanks

Level 45

Aug 28, 2016

Panic! at the Discotheque

Level 51

Nov 26, 2016

3.24 left; found this one pretty straight forward, just clumsy typing fingers

Level 78

Jan 31, 2017

With the abbreviation that a certain Google program has made popular, I would consider adding "document" for "Doc."

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

google program?? you know computers were around before google..

Level 70

Feb 14, 2017

It has been commented on several times, but MAG is short for magazine except in some weird underworld where everyone says ZINE.

Level 57

Feb 14, 2017

ad can also be anno domine

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

no that would be A.D.

Level 28

Feb 22, 2017

Ok, so it was easy... I got 2 wrongs, but I don't accept it. I MEAN LIKE, who the heck calls Magazines Zines?

Level 57

Mar 10, 2017

I has 73% and only got 2 points

Level 65

Mar 29, 2017

Ha. Get 'em all....but it took a minute for "admin" cuz I kept thinking of college admin being the administration building....not administrator. Oh, well.....Oh, and zine was easy; rarely used but I've see it enough to know what it meant.

Level 72

May 1, 2017

Possibly "document" could also work for "doc"?

Level 82

May 25, 2017

Tried veterinary surgeon and veterinary doctor - I think they should be accepted, specially for us Brits. I've never hard of Labrador being shortened to lab.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

I think I have mainly heard it when being paired with black. I have a black lab. Not sure if lab is used on its own.

Funny pic of labs explained

Level 63

May 25, 2017

Never heard "Zine" before. Very odd.

Level 32

Nov 9, 2017

If you are including hippo, you have to include rhino.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

why? these arent all the abbreviations in the world, and hippo is legitimately there..

Level 28

Feb 4, 2018

Never heard of zine for magazine, and didn't get blog either. Otherwise all ok.

Level 51

Feb 7, 2018

i guessed zine as i could only think of magazine ending in zine, but i have ony ever head of shorterning a magazine as mag

Level 33

May 24, 2018

Never knew there was such a thing as a 'discotheque'. I heard it as 'disco' 100% of the time. Guess that is one new word into my English vocabulary.

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

That is where it comes from, but indeed this is one of those cases where the original word has fallen into disuse nearly completely.

Level 70

Aug 25, 2018

Lab in England is short for the political party Labour.

Level 70

Dec 5, 2019

Only in written usage, people never say Lab as in................. " I voted for Lab this year" or " He's a member of the Lab party"

Level 49

Oct 7, 2018

Got them all eventually tho I'd never heard a magazine called a zine!

Level 45

Nov 12, 2018

since when has ANYONE said 'zine'???

Level 72

Jun 17, 2019

*mouth dropped to the floor emoji* almost noone knows what blog is ??? in this time that it is so common ( when blogs and the word for it first came into use I can understand. but now every 6 yo seems to blog or vlog ( videoblog... now you know that one too...)

Level 74

Dec 5, 2019

I think the word blog took over so fast that a lot of people never realized it was short for anything, they just assumed it was a made up word.

Level 67

Jun 27, 2019

Smashed it, but being an Aussie helps with all that slang.

Level 79

Dec 5, 2019

Arrgghhh.... Got 29/30 - I missed 'blog' but typed in 'web blog' - so close!!

Level 70

Dec 5, 2019

Great quiz! We need more like this.

However, "vocab" should be the first clue.

Level 75

Mar 13, 2020

I'm pretty sure that lab is also short for labia?

Level 41

Apr 13, 2020

I had no idea that blog stood for weblog!

Level 81

Jul 3, 2020

Many people who own Landrover Discovery motor vehicles call their car a 'Disco'. Right or wrong, they do.

Level 69

Aug 19, 2021

Not very familiar with a "zine" but okay

Level 82

Dec 2, 2021

I think that the time you'd save by saying "ump" instead of "umpire" would be vastly less than the time you'd lose having to explain what the hell you were talking about.

Level 79

Apr 18, 2022

Very fun--I especially enjoyed the ones that had more than one answer.

Level 55

May 8, 2022

I put chimpansee about 10 times and never realized it's spelled chimpanzee in English

Level 60

May 28, 2023

Don't you just love the American English language?

lol

Level 62

Dec 6, 2022

labyrinth

Level 70

May 28, 2023

Labyrinth does start with those letters, but it's never abbreviated as "lab".

Level 70

May 28, 2023

Zine is really the outlier here. It is a valid clue and answer, but it's just not as in the language as the others here.

I know it exclusively from solving crosswords for many years. If you type "zine" into the clue finder here, it's almost always clued as an amateur fan magazine, and those don't really exist anymore (do they?). Only one clue in the past 25+ years has it abbreviated for a regular magazine.

Level 60

May 28, 2023

Bro nobody says 'zine'.

Level 83

Jun 24, 2023

I saw it used at a museum just this week. They had signs to 'pick up the free exhibition zine' (which I never actually found). I don't know if it was an attempt to be 'down with the kids' or if they actually used the term unironically.

Level 70

Dec 20, 2023

All the comments complaining they've never heard "zine" make me feel extremely old and out of touch.

"Zine" usually refers to cheaply produced amateur magazines, e.g. fanzines, rather than mass-published magazines. They are still common, and were extremely widespread before the Internet, in any sort of counterculture that wants to self-publish: fandoms, political movements.

Level 61

Jan 8, 2024

Adding on, zines aren't really magazines (or fanzines). They are a type of magazine that is esoteric and less professional to serve a smaller audience.

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