gavinpen/ahkexpansionslist

List of abbreviations for Text Expansion

AHKExpansionsList

Basics

AHKExpansionsList is a text expansion dictionary - ie a list of abbreviations for words, formatted as AutoHotkey hotstrings.

Each hotstring consists of a pair of strings (an abbreviation plus the full form of a word or phrase), plus double colon (::) delimiters. When you type the abbreviation plus an ending character, AutoHotkey automatically expands it (ie replaces it with the full form). This can save a lot of typing.

The list could be easily converted into another format for use with a different text expansion program.

The first few lines of the file, before the list of hotstrings, are AutoHotkey settings and directives.

Prerequisites
AutoHotkey

Vocabulary

The list includes some of the most common words and short combinations of words in the English language.

As well as individual words and short combinations of words, the list also includes some personal names and place names, and a few computing terms and programming language keywords.

The list generally uses British English, rather than American English, though it's not completely consistent on this.

Steps used to generate abbreviations

I originally used VBA, then various bash scripts and commands, to generate abbreviations. I've also added many abbreviations manually.

Choosing abbreviations often involves a trade-off between keeping them both short and memorable, so the following steps haven't been followed rigidly.

Some shorter words don't have abbreviations at all.

Where 2 words (eg back and book) would otherwise share an abbreviation (eg bk) generated by the steps below, this is sometimes prevented by including another letter (often the first vowel which is different) in the abbreviation for the less common word (eg bok for book). In other cases, the less common word is not included at all in the list.

Step to generate abbreviation	Example word or phrase	Abbreviation
all vowels removed	there	thr
- including y (where used as a vowel)	hypnotise	hpnts
- except the first leading vowel	Austrian	astrn
- and last trailing vowel	Austria	astra
-- though silent trailing -e is removed	table	tbl
all double consonants replaced with single ones	channel	chnl
trailing -ing replaced with -g	reading	rdg
tion replaced with n	radiation	rdn
ck replaced with k	block	blk
trailing -ble replaced with b	memorable	mmrb
trailing -ly replaced with y	usually	usy
trailing -you replaced with u	have you	hvu
dj replaced with j	adjust	ajst
ph replaced with f	physics	fscs
ct replaced with c	expect	expc
dg (where pronounced j) replaced with j	knowledge	nlj
w (where not pronounced as a consonant) removed	elbow	elbo
sch (where pronounced sh) replaced with sh	schedule	shdl
ch (where pronounced c) replaced with c	school	scl
gh (when pronounced f) replaced with f	enough	enf
sci/sce (when c silent) replaced with si/se	scientist	sntst
silent letters removed	through	thro
all spaces removed	in case	incs
(almost) all punctuation removed	they're	thyr
all letters lower case	America	amrca
(q used to prefix miscellaneous abbreviations, often using initials of each word)	by the way	qbtw

ahkexpansionslist's Issues

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Hi Gavin,
These expansions inspired me to write this autocompletion menu. Now it's all done I thought you might like it.
From your repos I gather we are pretty similar; your AHKCoordGrid also has a lot of the same functionality as my extend layer.
Best,
Henry