{"id":7457,"date":"2012-08-17T16:58:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2012-08-17T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:58:42","slug":"ultd-abbreviations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7457","title":{"rendered":"Ultd abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/abbreviations.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"217\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Ultd text from ad and panda xing sign\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came across the abbreviations &#8216;<strong>Ultd<\/strong>&#8216; today in an online add and it took me a few moments to realise that it meant unlimited. From the context it was obvious: the ad mentions Ultd texts and Ultd Internet, but without this context it wouldn&#8217;t be so obvious. Maybe they didn&#8217;t have enough space to write the word in full, but perhaps a clearer abbreviation would be unltd. <\/p>\n<p>Have you come across this abbreviation before, or are there any other abbreviations that puzzle you?<\/p>\n<p>Another abbreviation I&#8217;ve seen on road signs in videos and photos from Australia and the USA is <strong>Xing<\/strong>, meaning crossing. This puzzled me the first time I saw it, maybe because I&#8217;m not used to seeing an X used to represent the word cross. I interpreteted the word as a Mandarin Chinese one written in pinyin and wondered which of the many words with that pronunciation it was meant to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the abbreviations &#8216;Ultd&#8216; today in an online add and it took me a few moments to realise that it meant unlimited. From the context it was obvious: the ad mentions Ultd texts and Ultd Internet, but without this context it wouldn&#8217;t be so obvious. Maybe they didn&#8217;t have enough space to write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}