Obtain the Built-in Abbreviation Gazetteer

Returns the abbreviations whose periods are never treated as sentence boundaries by [segment()]. Matching is case-insensitive and anchored at a word boundary, so `"ST."` protects `"St. Petersburg"` but never the end of `"cost."`.

Usage

abbreviations()

Value

A sorted character vector of uppercase abbreviations, each ending in a period.

Examples

head(abbreviations())
#> [1] "APPROX." "B.SC."   "CF."     "DR."     "E.G."    "EQ."