3 ms·

I believe this pattern was originally popularized by "i18n" for "internationalization", partly for convenience and partly to have an identifier that would fit i

• adolph 5y ago
  Numeronym: According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym Agree that i18n cemented it in the letter count form (homonym form is older, like K9 for canine).
  • mdp2021 5y ago
    ('K9' is homophone for 'canine'. To be homonyms, two terms should have different meaning - if two terms share the same name and meaning, they are the same...)