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It's a very common abbreviation.

• DanBC 10y ago
  ...in the US.
  • grub5000 10y ago
    UK here, pretty sure everyone in the country knows this one. Think there was a memo...
    • twic 10y ago
      In the UK, the only person i've heard use it was an American.
    • SixSigma 10y ago
      I was prem, and my step kid was prem, I spent a month living in the special care unit with her at Sheffield hospital and I've never heard it.
    • DanBC 10y ago
      Single mention on BBC.co.uk (and that's from an American). There's 72 mentions on the Guardian website, except when you go to the actual stories to search most of them don't use the preemie word, and search was helpfully subbing a word. There are 2 hits on the Independant.co.uk website. It's just not very common over here.
  • taneq 10y ago
    Preemie or premmie is used in Australia too.
• nmeofthestate 10y ago
  > It's a very common abbreviation. ...which I have never in my entire life heard before, or seen written down.