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Stephen Sniderman created this feature. He is professor of English at Youngstown State University, contributing editor to Games magazine and Games World of Puzzles, and author of Language LoversWord Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2002) and Stanley Newman Presents Grid Play (Random House, 2003).  
Short Forms  

Did you see the MEMO, BRO? If not, eyeball the DEMO below. Your goal in this puzzle is to find the slangy short versions of various long words. The letters listed are those that are left over when the short form is omitted. We’ve also provided blanks for the letters in the word you’re looking for. So memorandum would appear as RANDUM, brother as THER, and demonstration as NSTRATION. And, finally, we’ve alphabetized the answers to help you find them all. Can you get the IMUM?

For a printer-friendly file with more Short Forms puzzles, click on the link below. You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader to open this file.

 

 

 

1. DOMINAL

2. VERTISEMENT

3. NUS

4. POLOGY

5. MOBILE

6. GRAPHY

7. RO

8. HAM

9. OMNI

10. OCKS

11. ULUS

12. OHYDRATE

13. VASCULAR EXERCISE

14. RITY

15. ION

 
   
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