- clipping from question, yet because it is only one letter and is pronounced as the one letter it is an abberviation, while also carrrying properties of an initialism. Possible new word formation: initeviation?
Q
noun abbreviation and initialism (initeviation?)
Question, meaning to name of something that is asked.
Etymology : From the anglo french questiun, old french question, from latin quæstionem. (etymonline.com)
Source : "Hurry up and answer my Q!" Facebook user, Nov. 15, 2010.
Last modified: 12 December 2010