Abstract
English language is an extensive system that constantly changes. Different historical events, modifications and occasions are displayed on the language. Due to the permanent development and improvement of technological devices English people have got the tendency to save their time and effort. That is why shortenings become more and more popular in communication, especially in online sphere which as means of communication made shortenings even more popular.The article deals with the notion of a shortening, a difference among an abbreviation, shortening and clipping, the way they are studied in modern linguistics by foreign and home scholars. Some scholars’ classifications of abbreviations and approaches to their study are scrutinised.The aim of the work is to study different types of shortenings and their peculiarities in English language, to classify them and to interpret them according to the sphere of their using and context.
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