Editing Abbreviation (section)

=== English ===
Syllabic abbreviations are not widely used in English. Some UK government agencies such as [[Ofcom]] (Office of Communications) and the former [[Oftel]] (Office of Telecommunications) use this style.

[[New York City]] has various neighborhoods named by syllabic abbreviation, such as [[Tribeca]] (Triangle below Canal Street) and [[SoHo]] (South of Houston Street). This usage has spread into other American cities, giving [[South of Market, San Francisco|SoMa]], San Francisco (South of Market) and [[LoDo, Denver]] (Lower Downtown), amongst others.

[[Chicago]]-based electric service provider [[ComEd]] is a syllabic abbreviation of ''Commonwealth'' and (Thomas) ''Edison''.

Sections of [[California]] are also often colloquially syllabically abbreviated, as in NorCal (Northern California), CenCal (Central California), and SoCal (Southern California). Additionally, in the context of Los Angeles, the syllabic abbreviation SoHo (Southern Hollywood) refers to the southern portion of the [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]] neighborhood.

Partially syllabic abbreviations are preferred by the US Navy, as they increase readability amidst the large number of initialisms that would otherwise have to fit into the same acronyms. Hence ''[[DESRON]] 6'' is used (in the full capital form) to mean "Destroyer Squadron 6", while ''[[COMNAVAIRLANT]]'' would be "Commander, Naval Air Force (in the) Atlantic".

Syllabic abbreviations are a prominent feature of [[Newspeak]], the fictional language of [[George Orwell]]'s dystopian novel ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]''. The political contractions of Newspeak—''Ingsoc'' (English Socialism), ''Minitrue'' (Ministry of Truth), ''Miniplenty'' ([[Ministry of Plenty]])—are described by Orwell as similar to real examples of German ''([[#German|see below]])'' and Russian (''[[#Russian|see below]])'' contractions in the 20th century. The contractions in Newspeak are supposed to have a political function by virtue of their abbreviated structure itself: nice sounding and easily pronounceable, their purpose is to mask all ideological content from the speaker.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Orwell |first=George |title=Nineteen Eighty-Four |publisher=Secker and Warburg |year=1949 |isbn=978-0-452-28423-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nineteeneightyfo00orwe_1 }}</ref>{{rp|310–8}}

A more recent syllabic abbreviation has emerged with the disease [[COVID-19]] (Corona Virus Disease 2019) caused by the [[Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2]] (itself frequently abbreviated to [[SARS-CoV-2]], partly an initialism).