You may notice that some of these translations of abbreviation look and sound similar to one another. Many different languages also contain words that mean abbreviation. The abbreviation of the word and is &, which is known as an ampersand. Abbreviations are commonly used for things like the days of the week or months of the year. These are often used in British English and American English, and their abbreviated forms are written with a capital letter only. This is not to be confused with an acronym like NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), UFO, SCUBA, SNAFU, UNICEF, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), RADAR, HIV, REM or LASER, which use the first letter of each word to form a new word or something that could use the last letters of a word. This shorthand is easier to use than the full word. According to Collins English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, and the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, an abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase, where instead of using the whole word, only a part is used for convenience.

Abbreviations for words province