Is there a linguistic reason we abbreviate something like the word “Management” as MGMT. What determines which letters will best to use to abbreviate?
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Some abbreviations are the result of committees or standards organizations, like the abbreviations of the States of the US. Other words have a sort of natural abbreviation created by removing the vowels and less-emphasized consonants in the word, like your example with Management. Remove the less-emphasized letters and you get an abbreviation that sounds like the original word. This makes it ripe for adoption.
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