Abbreviations and acronyms

Forbidden: "Apt. no.", "The ETA of the dept. manager is COB tomorrow"
Instead: "Apartment number". Write it out. Abbreviations save a few characters and cost the reader a moment of decoding every time.

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Forbidden

Instead

Why this rule

Where one is genuinely necessary, expand it on first use: "ETA (estimated time of arrival)". Best is usually to remove it altogether, even if the sentence gets longer.

Kind: Rule
Section: UI writing
Group: Words
Bucket: judgment
Severity: note
Since: v0.1.0

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