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Sunday, 21 November 2004

When abbreviations attack

Fridge is a nice, easy-to-spell word. It's unfortunately the cause of the frequent misspelling of its full-length relation, refrigerator. As you can see, a d has crept into the short form. From this, people mistakenly back-form the original word to refridgerator. To prompt yourself just remember that the short version is spelt differently from its big brother.