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Listening to electronics technicians discussing their work must, to the layman, be like listening to a foreign language; a circuit diagram must appear to him like a strange sort of street map. In the case of the written word, even more mystery can abound because words are often abbreviated, sometimes to just one letter.
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Thorn EMI Television Rentals Ltd. (1985). Introduction. In: Electronic abbreviations, symbols and terms. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07966-7_1
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