Timeline for "Muso" and "Journo" Usage and Origin
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| Nov 12, 2014 at 3:46 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 4, 2014 at 22:05 | answer | added | Cal | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 22:27 | comment | added | curiousdannii | In AusE there are loads of diminutives like this. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 19:24 | history | edited | charlie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 19:07 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | It seems like the British tabloids are particularly fond of the -o ending. I remember they used to call Michael Jackson "Jacko," which was almost never used here in America. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 19:03 | comment | added | terdon | In that case, please edit your question and clarify what you find strange about those particular abbreviations. Cops is actually a contraction of coppers so it would apply. You also have docs, vets, sales reps, sarges, VPs, the veep, POTUS and I'm sure there are many more. I just don't see that there's any difference between AmE and BrE here. Only that some terms are more common on one side of the pond or the other. The phenomenon itself seems to be quite international. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 19:02 | history | edited | charlie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | charlie | @terdon The examples I am talking about concern labels specifically for groups of people or professions that are shortened versions of a longer word. I rarely hear "Profs" in AmE but that might be regional. Cops isn't (as far as I know) short for a longer word for police. AmE is, as you state, fond of abbreviations, but not the ones I cited for some reason. I agree with brasshat that it might have started with newspaper headlines because that's the place I've most frequently seen these abbreviations but I'm not sure, hence the question. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:32 | comment | added | terdon | @Mitch I know, I'm just having trouble understanding how the OPs examples are any different than the hundreds of abbreviations and acronyms commonly used in AmE. I mean that the question "Any particular reason why this isn't done in the US English?" seems based on a flawed premise. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:27 | comment | added | Mitch | @terdon: What is special about those two is that they don't appear in AmE. No pattern that I can tell (maybe ending in -o'?). | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 18:12 | comment | added | terdon | What makes you think it's not done in American English? AmE is particularly fond of abbreviations. Off the top of my head, peeps, rad, bull, lit. What is so special about journos and musos that does not apply to profs or cops or ammo? | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 17:58 | comment | added | brasshat | At least one of the contractions you cite, "pol", has a relatively wide, if informal, usage in US English, probably originating a century or so ago in Newspaper headlines. | |
| Nov 3, 2014 at 16:34 | history | edited | charlie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 3, 2014 at 16:16 | history | asked | charlie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |