Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.
How come abbreviated is such a long word?
Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs. ) and Mister (Mr. ) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.