About a hundred years ago in Russian, as in other European languages, abbreviated words - abbreviations, which are a kind of "coupling" of phrases, began to be widely used. If earlier, since the time of Ancient Rome, there were such abbreviations, then only in writing, for example, Latin etc. from et caetera, Russian, etc. from and so on. Since the beginning of the XX century, they began not only to write them in abbreviated form, but also to pronounce them. In other words, the graphic abbreviations were supplemented with lexical ones, that is, similar to words. And this made it possible for the well-known scientist D. I. Alekseev, one of the authors of a very complete dictionary of the Soviet era, which has not lost its relevance today (Alekseev D. M. Gozman I. G., Sakharov G. V. Dictionary of Abbreviations of the Russian language, Moscow, 1983), to assert that abbreviation has become a separate way of word formation. Over the past century, the structure of pronounced abbreviations in Russian has gone through three stages. At first, they had a random, disordered structure ( ugro - criminal investigation, educational program-literacy elimination). In the 40-80s of the XX century, strictly fixed parts of words that are repeated in a variety of abbreviations, usually ending in a consonant sound, became widespread: min (ministry), trans (transport), strom (construction machine), district executive committee (district executive committee); at the same time, initial abbreviations such as Scientific research institute (scientific research institute) were fixed.-research institute). KVN in marking TV sets, etc. page 40 As a result of the use of sounds, letters, and syllables in recent decades, we construct abbreviations of at least three types: - consisting of the first sounds or letters of words that are included in the phrase-so-called acronyms: DBDDIPS (a database management system for documentary information and search engines), as well as syllabic abbreviations like d ... Read more