Hi,
graywolf wrote:
sth?
Someone who wrote the teaching materials for one of the better-known English courses for non-native speakers seems to have a sense of humour. Sth for something, sbdy for somebody and various other permutations litter the course as "well known" abbreviations in written English. As the course is by either Oxford or Cambridge, and therefore well-regarded, it has spread to other courses and is now commonly used by non-native speakers.
mike
