Investopedia / Michela Buttignol A stock symbol is an abbreviation that's used to identify a stock for trading and often derives from the company's name. Stock symbols are a shorthand way of ...

This symbol, while maybe not an example of spelling reform, could also be just another version of shorthand, Daniels contends. He remembers an older form of shorthand called Notescript ...

Many sources including the Ask Oxford website and a book called Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany reported that the "at" symbol comes from shorthand for the Latin word "ad"—A.D ...

Over time, the symbols and abbreviations he used evolved so that his personal shorthand became unintelligible to outsiders. (Dickens himself referred to it as “that savage stenographic mystery ...

Ticker symbols are a shorthand way of describing a company's stock so there's no significant difference between those that have three letters and those that have four or five. A stock symbol is an ...