Word Shortenings Quiz #2

Guess the long form of these shortened words.

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First submitted	March 27, 2012
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Short	Long
Bike	Bicycle
Gas	Gasoline
'Fess	Confess
Auto	Automobile
Auto	Automatic
Slaw	Coleslaw
Prez	President
Prof	Professor
Ref	Referee

Short	Long
'em	Them
Fridge	Refrigerator
Tho	Though
Intel	Intelligence
Exam	Examination
Pec	Pectoral
Petrol	Petroleum
Evac	Evacuation
Grad	Graduate

Short	Long
Prom	Promenade
Rhino	Rhinoceros
Trig	Trigonometry
Co-op	Co-operative
Expat	Expatriate
Porno	Pornographic
Groom	Bridegroom
Zin	Zinfandel
Coke	Cocaine

Level 31

Mar 27, 2012

I had no idea what prom was short for. Got the rest though :)

Level 83

Jun 11, 2015

In the sense of a student party or whatever I think prom has lost its original meaning, but if you know anything about the Proms - or "Promenade Concerts" - it's not that hard.

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

i tried promote promotion, promovation and various options with ball gala and party

Level 75

Mar 21, 2017

At our local school they still have the students line up outside the gym before "prom" so they can do the grand promenade inside, stopping briefly at a backdrop for parents to take photos. I guess they figure it's the least they can do for the hundreds of dollars spent on dresses, tuxes, flowers, tickets, etc. It's a tradition for people to come out and watch the promenade.

Level 37

Mar 27, 2012

yocoy , 'evac' is always used as a noun.. "We need evac[uation] ", not "we need *to* evac[uate] "

Level 70

Mar 24, 2015

I disagree, have heard it many times as "we need you to evac the area."

Level 14

Mar 27, 2012

spelled rhinoceros 10 different ways before giving up

Level 50

Mar 27, 2012

Evac isn't *always* used as a noun (e.g. "We need to evac out of here"), but yes, both forms should be accepted.

+20

Level 61

Mar 27, 2012

sorry, probably showing my ignorance- but what the hell in 'zinfandel'?

other than that only missed one!

Level 28

Dec 12, 2013

White wine.

Level 50

Jun 10, 2014

More often red. If white, it's called "white Zinfandel". They have to peel the grapes to make it be a white (or pink) wine.

Level 88

Dec 2, 2015

Zin is generally the heaviest of the reds. Even more so than Cabernet Sauvignon. Although original from Dalmatia (Croatia) and found in Italy as well, the best Zinfandels are probably from the US--northern California (Napa/Sonoma) and the Pacific Northwest. White Zin is wine produced with the same Zin grapes but in a manner to produce a light, sweet, rose that is widely disparaged by wine snobs.

Level 79

Mar 5, 2021

Known as primitivo in Italian, if I'm not mistaken. Incidentally, I love a zinfandel, the red one, and I have only ever heard of it shortened to zinf.

Level 69

Mar 27, 2015

it's actually a grape variety

Level 61

Mar 27, 2012

*is

Level 75

Apr 14, 2021

A lonely correction from the olden days...

Level 26

Mar 27, 2012

i think zinfandel is like a wine grape or something

Level 65

Mar 27, 2012

I think "although" should be accepted for "tho" as well.

Level 91

Apr 16, 2013

i++;

Level 84

Apr 24, 2014

definitely

Level ∞

Dec 11, 2014

That will work now.

Level 60

Apr 24, 2022

I'm glad it is tho I've never heard it that way before.

Level 27

Mar 27, 2012

i was kinda freaked out when i spelled out co ca cola for coke and cocain came up

Level 45

Jul 18, 2014

Well, actually, it's because Coca-Cola used to be made with cocaine. Now THAT is scary.

Level 45

Jul 18, 2014

I suppose that could be why I've never liked it.

+11

Level 88

Mar 24, 2015

...or why I CAN'T stop drinking it!

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

that's why I used to like it but not anymore..

Level 41

Mar 27, 2012

I've only ever heard "white zin" -- never just "zin" by itself. Also there is no such word as "bridesgroom". Also lol @ wildman.

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

you sure about that... just because you havent heard of a word doesnt mean it doesnt exist. I am sure there are some young kids out there that dont believe the word though exist and will insist that it is tho...

Even I know it and english is not my mother tongue. I actually knew it since I was 10 or something (I remember finding it rather odd, I allready found groom a very weird word, it reminded me of broom and grooming (which then was used for dogs and not immoral things) but putting bride in front of it made it look weird, sort of double. )

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

Looking at a comment further down the comment section, I see that apparently the displayed answer used to be the incorrect bridesgroom. (and i didnt register or mistook your s for a simple spelling error)>

So yes, you are right, bridesgroom does not exist :) You ofcourse have the bride's groom ;)

Level 28

Mar 27, 2012

100 percent - easy.

Level 65

Mar 28, 2012

I don't think bridesgroom with the "s" is a word? No dictionary that I can find even lists it as a form of the actual word "bridegroom."

Level 28

Mar 28, 2012

100% with 3:06 remaining :-)

Level 14

Mar 29, 2012

I was confused and took groom to be the form of grooming a dog. Curse of being single i suppose. ;)

Level 14

Mar 29, 2012

lol and i put coca-cola but i thought cocaine immediately after i had put it in. I did actually know that their used to be coke in coke. :)

Level 81

Mar 30, 2012

Isn't "though" short for "although"?

Level 56

Mar 24, 2015

I googled it and got here: http://grammarist.com/usage/although-though/ . From what I can tell, sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.

Level 32

Apr 5, 2012

I couldn't spell Rhinoceros.

Level 68

Mar 18, 2022

lol, me too

Level 32

Apr 10, 2012

As I understand it, intel can only mean intelligence - as in a secret agent like context. So it wouldn't be used as an abbreviation for intellectual.

Level 43

Sep 7, 2012

Although for tho, I agree.

Level 62

Mar 8, 2014

I'm surprised that nobody else reported my little problem here ...

It's a logistics issue of the way spelling looks on the screen whenever there is the lower case letter "r" followed by the lower case letter "n" ... and besides the word "barn" I guess the word "porno" is one of the only other words commonly used ... but when i kept reading "porno" I keep seeing "pomo" and so I was guessing "pomegranate" and other crazy words ... I wish that in the future you could somehow make the "r-n" combination MORE CLEAR!! Maybe by doing it in CAPS like "PORNO" or maybe by using dashes between letters like "p-o-r-n-o" ... either of which would have been completely legible - without the chances of any reading errors! Thanks!! And btw, I WAS wearing my reading glasses when playing as I always do ... and throughout all the Quizzes, the only ones i ever have had trouble with have been the "r-n" sequence of lower letters.

Level 89

Dec 29, 2018

We're on the internet where there's porno everywhere, but hardly a pomegranate ever Go with the obvious.

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

Or zoom the screen. I know what you mean and in other places (papers/books) I have experienced it myself. Never once on this site though, the distinction is clear enough (though indeed small) especially when it isnt nonsensical words ( or ones you have never heard of

Level 64

Dec 20, 2023

Pomo is short for postmodern: that would be a fun one too! There are quite a lot of porno pomo novels.

Level 51

May 29, 2014

Never heard of zinfandel!

Level 35

Jun 21, 2014

Guessed intellect, intellectual, and intelligent. Sigh.

Level 22

Jul 4, 2014

Spent the majority of that time trying to work out what fridge was short for....

Level 45

Jul 18, 2014

Ouch.

Level 48

Aug 5, 2014

I am totally shocked at how many people don't know what Zinfandel is ?????

Guess being from California--it's pretty much a way of life. Maybe I should make up a wine quiz....

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

I cant see anythingbut frikandel when looking at that word. Every time it is mentioned in the comment section that is what I think,,, eventhough I just read in that same comment section that it is actually a wine, but my mind goes, nope, frikandel...

This is a frikandel

Level 64

Jun 22, 2021

From australia. I have never heard the term Zin or Zinfandel before

Level 68

May 31, 2023

From NZ, and never heard of Zin or Zinfandel before either.

Level 70

Aug 30, 2014

100% with 2:24 left.

Level 75

Dec 29, 2014

2:57

Level 63

Feb 21, 2015

Interestingly, most linguists and etymologists will tell you that "'em" is not actually short for "them," but a survival of Middle English "hem," which was an alternative third person plural pronoun.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/'em

Shouldn't change the quiz, but an interesting note nonetheless.

Level 24

Mar 24, 2015

Groom is a full word when it comes to people who care for horses, just saying.

Level 68

Feb 26, 2021

yeah, that's definitely where my mind went

Level 74

Mar 24, 2015

I tried 'gasolene' about 20 times before it struck me there was an alternative spelling. Any chance of accepting 'gasolene'?

Level 84

May 22, 2021

I've never seen it spelled gasolene, it's gasoline here. I think you might make a pitch for gasolene as an alternative acceptable spelling.

Level 56

Mar 24, 2015

I typed kohl-slaw and it wasn't accepted. Coleslaw and kohl-slaw seem like synonyms to me. So why not accept that too?

Level 75

Mar 24, 2015

Because kohl-slaw isn't a thing?

Level 48

Oct 13, 2018

isn't kohl that black eyeliner stuff used by the Egyptians etc ?

Level 56

Nov 18, 2020

And also a salad made out of a dead German chancellor.

Level 28

Mar 24, 2015

cocaine, lol In a non-drug induced environment maybe Coca Cola would be a better fit.

Level 67

Jul 21, 2019

same difference..

Level 70

Mar 24, 2015

100% with 2:32 left.

Level 22

Mar 24, 2015

why is coke short for cocaine?

Level 60

Mar 26, 2015

Well, because coke was a slang term for cocaine before it was a term for Coca-Cola (and in fact still is). In fact, Coca-Cola was only invented by accident. It was originally concocted by a corner druggist in the late 19th century as a headache cure, with cocaine as one of the main ingredients. Nothing was done to hide that fact, either, since believe it or not, cocaine used to be prescribed by doctors and promoted by health books as a cure for all kinds of aches and pains, and even altitude sickness. Obviously we now know that's not a good idea, but if somebody hadn't accidentally put carbonated water into the formula for "Dr. Pemberton's Pick-Me-Up," it never would've become Coca-Cola. Hope that helps!

Level 67

Nov 16, 2021

What a time to be alive.

Level 10

Mar 25, 2015

%100 with 2:54 left

Level 69

Mar 26, 2015

How about accepting "magazine" for "zin"? I've heard it many times, also used in another shortening: fanzin - fan magazine

Level 64

Dec 20, 2023

That's generally spelt "zine", and appears on the previous quiz in the series.

Level 67

Feb 24, 2016

Reference is also frequently shortened to ref, particularly in written correspondence.

Level 53

Apr 7, 2016

Can you get rid of zinfandel?

Level 64

Dec 20, 2023

Usually by drinking it.

Level 71

Nov 22, 2016

Autograph, Autobiography?

Level 48

Oct 13, 2018

when have you heard someone ask a famous person for their auto? they would think you want their car ! ditto, go into a bookshop and ask for Clinton's auto.....they'd send you to a car dealership.

Level 68

Jan 10, 2017

Can reference also be accepted for ref? It's used as slang to refer to references for jobs or academic citations, and is what I immediately thought of.

Level 66

Mar 21, 2017

Level 58

Mar 21, 2017

magazine for zin should work

Level 74

Mar 21, 2017

You must be thinking of "zine".

Level 66

Aug 20, 2018

Never heard of Zin or Zinfandel before.

Level 49

Sep 17, 2018

Nor me x

Level 45

Dec 29, 2018

Huh we only use about eight of these in the UK... America must be in more of a linguistic rush than us ;)

Level 49

Nov 8, 2019

zin for zinfandel is just another level of laziness

Level 79

Feb 9, 2020

Never heard of 'pec', 'zin' or 'Zinfandel' before. But got all the others.

Level 29

Jul 26, 2020

Coke could also be Coca-Cola

Level 51

Jul 26, 2020

Me: Types Coca-Cola for Coke

*works*

Answer: Cocaine

Level 75

Oct 26, 2020

To be fair, cocaine was present in Coca Cola for a while, so both answers make sense

Level 41

Oct 26, 2020

Would be so much easier if we could just type in the short form... ;-)

Level 68

Feb 13, 2021

I'll probably get crucified by the usual crowd for this, but I'll say it anyway: I find that Americans specifically seem way more prone than other people to abbreviate words as soon as they have more than two or three syllables. I'm not judging or anything, it's just something I have noticed. Would you agree? Does anyone know of a possible explanation for this?

Level 76

Feb 16, 2021

I tried "Presentation" and "Intellectual"

Level 65

Mar 10, 2021

Tho is getting into slang.

Level 60

Jun 6, 2021

I thought prom was for promenade, "I do like to stroll along the prom, prom, prom, while the brass band plays tiddly om-pom-pom". Never been to a prom, we really should have them in Europe, but they always seem to end badly in US films! So maybe not.

Level 60

Jun 6, 2021

NNever heard of Zinfandel, will look it up.

Level 64

Jun 22, 2021

Looks like a lot of people have done scientific research for Porno to be up at 93%

Level 67

Aug 19, 2021

I tried spelling it Prezident after seeing it like that

Level 58

Jan 27, 2022

Got them all but "zin". Never heard of the shore or long word.

Level 77

May 2, 2022

I remember getting one incorrect answer on a cut-and-paste activity in early grade school, because I pasted "fridge" to the "F" box, instead of the "R" box. I was unsure as to why I got it marked incorrectly, until the teacher explained it to me. I was just so used to saying "fridge," I simply forgot its full name.

Level 62

Jun 15, 2022

Good quiz. A common meaning of Trig here in Britain is "triangulation", so you could add that.

Level 68

May 31, 2023

Well, I must not be American, because I couldn't think for the life of me what Prez was. I was so shocked when it wasn't Presbyterian!

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