Dear Queen B:
Why does the word abbreviation have so many letters?

Humorously Confused

Dear Humorously Confused:
If I could give you a virtual gold sticker for your excellent observation I
would. My answer for you is simple, politics. There are politics in
every aspect of life and always have been. So even in the early days of
English writing when someone decided to create the word abbreviation, there
were politics present. There was probably a council of highly intellectual
men who sat down to decide on the word that would eventually mean condensed
words. And in doing so they could not decide on a smaller word, because the
meaning already has to do with smaller, they wanted to prove that they’re
intellect and power was not small and therefore created a big word to mean
small. You see my friend: it’s all politics.

Yours Truly,
Queen B