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This is all coming from stenography, it's a well established shorthand for long words: first letter, count of middle letters, last letter.


No, it cane from DEC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym#Numerical_contractio...

It seems unlikely to me that stenography would use this style because they have better ways of abbreviating long agglutinative words.




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