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This chapter is simply designed to be fun. It outlines many of the typical abbreviations used when writing very informal emails and text messages and when chatting. Most of this chapter originally appeared in Email and Commercial Correspondence, which is part of the Springer series: A Guide to Professional English.
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Wallwork, A. (2016). Smileys, Acronyms, Txt Messg. In: English for Interacting on Campus. English for Academic Research. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28734-8_13
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