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* ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' is usually referred to as "Ned's Declassified" or just "Ned's"- however, the TV listings grid in Gannett newspapers lists it as "School", seemingly picking the most confusingly generic word from the title...

* Because of the confusing nature of the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series (for more information, see above), each game can have multitudes of abbreviations such as JKII, JO, JKII:JO, SW:JO, DFIII.

** They are almost always called, in order, ''Dark Forces,'' ''Jedi Knight,'' ''Jedi Outcast'' and ''Jedi Academy.''

* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]'' is usually referred to by fans as "The Hitchhiker's Guide" or sometimes "H2G2." (The in-universe guidebook of the same name is referred to in-story and out as simply "The Guide".) Most of the books in the series have similarly long titles (if not even longer), and get referred to by acronyms or significant words.

* ''[[Temple of Elemental Evil]]'' technically has a "The" in front of it, but absolutely no one uses it (It gets a smaller font size on the original's logo even). Similarly, the computer game adaptation has the subtitle "A Classic Greyhawk Adventure", but it isn't used outside of the cover, first patch installer, and copyright screen.

* Since almost everything else that Apple produces followed the same lowercase I and one word format (iPod, iPad, iTunes, iPhone) for the sake of consistency, a lot of people will shorten the iPod Touch down to simply the iTouch. However, any time you see this in an article, expect the first comment to be something along the lines of "It's called an iPod Touch. The iTouch is a knockoff!"

** ''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine'' is simply referred to as ''God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater''

** ''Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death'' is generally called ''Slaughterhouse-Five''. Besides his liking to create long names, the reason for adding, "The Children's Crusade" to it is explained in the book. As he was thinking of writing the book he promised the wife of one of his fellow soldiers that the book would not glorify war, promising it would be called "The Children's Crusade", to note that most of the "men" who fought in [[World War II]] were 17 to 23 years old.

** ''Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday'', everyone just calls it ''Breakfast of Champions''.