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* Originally known as the '''S'''cholastic '''A'''ptitude '''T'''est and '''S'''cholastic '''A'''ssessment '''T'''est, "SAT" no longer stands for anything.

* ''Music/{{Chumbawamba}}'''s thirteenth album is almost always shortened to just ''The Boy Bands Have Won'', primarily because the actual title is [[LongTitle ludicrously long]] at 156 words, actually holding a Guinness World Record for the longest album title[[labelnote:The full title...]]''The Boy Bands Have Won, and All the Copyists and the Tribute Bands and the TV Talent Show Producers Have Won, If We Allow Our Culture to Be Shaped by Mimicry, Whether from Lack of Ideas or from Exaggerated Respect. You Should Never Try to Freeze Culture. What You Can Do Is Recycle That Culture. Take Your Older Brother's Hand-Me-Down Jacket and Re-Style It, Re-Fashion It to the Point Where It Becomes Your Own. But Don't Just Regurgitate Creative History, or Hold Art and Music and Literature as Fixed, Untouchable and Kept Under Glass. The People Who Try to 'Guard' Any Particular Form of Music Are, Like the Copyists and Manufactured Bands, Doing It the Worst Disservice, Because the Only Thing That You Can Do to Music That Will Damage It Is Not Change It, Not Make It Your Own. Because Then It Dies, Then It's Over, Then It's Done, and the Boy Bands Have Won''[[/labelnote]].

* The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) officially shortened its name to "The Y"[[note]]Which is what people had been calling it for decades.[[/note]].
** Technically that's not actually shorter--matter of fact, it's longer if you count the space!

** [[http://youtu.be/29g57XTYgLE Take it away]], WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun.

** The 1990 and 1999 remasters of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' shortens the album's memorably unwieldy title to ''Ziggy Stardust''; the full title is still included on the CD and LP disc labels (as well as on cassette labels outside North America), however.

** The 1990 remaster of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' shortens the album's memorably unwieldy title to ''Ziggy Stardust''; the full title is still included on the CD and LP disc labels, however.

* Nearly all of Creator/TheFiresignTheatre's albums have [[WordSaladTitle bizarre]], {{long title}}s, so everyone just refers to "Two Places", "Dwarf", "Immortality", etc., most of the time, including the members of the Firesign Theatre.

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' games are often referred to by "P", followed by the nearest number or letter (i.e. PQ for ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', P4 for ''VideoGame/Persona4'', etc.). This applies to their rereleases and sequels as well, typically adding another letter to represent the subtitle (P3P for ''[[VideoGame/Persona3 Persona 3 Portable]]'', P5S for ''VideoGame/Persona5Strikers''). Exceptions exist, such as the two games that make up ''VideoGame/Persona2'' (''Innocent Sin'' and ''Eternal Punishment'') instead only abbreviating the subtitles.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games are often referred to by their acronym (i.e. PQ for ''VideoGame/PersonaQShadowOfTheLabyrinth'', P4 for ''VideoGame/Persona4'', etc.).

* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' has the official abbreviation of BDFI, which itself gets played around with in subsequent seasons' titles:

** ''WebAnimation/BattleForBDFI'' is shortened to BFB, as the "BDFI" in the title is the full name of the ambiguous thing everyone is competing over.

* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland Again'' is very often referred to as its abbreviated version: BFDIA. Even the titles of the videos use this abbreviation.

* Music/DavidBowie: The 1990 remaster of ''Music/TheRiseAndFallOfZiggyStardustAndTheSpidersFromMars'' shortens the album's memorably unwieldy title to ''Ziggy Stardust''; the full title is still included on the CD and LP disc labels, however.

A newly premiered work has a [[LongTitle long [=and/or=] elaborate title]]. If the show survives to become popular, however, a certain phenomenon is known to occur: This long and elaborate title is shortened to just half its original size, if that, and advertised as such.

* The Unicorns' ''Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?'' has sort of a LongTitle, which couldn't fit on the side of the CD packaging (especially because the album comes in a slim cardboard case)--accordingly, the title is rendered as ''W.W.C.O.H.W.W.G'' there, although the rest of the artwork always uses the full title.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'' was often called called "Creator/{{DreamWorks|Animation}}' ''Dragons''" in the commercials.

PortmanteauSeriesNickname is a related trope, mostly applying to Japanese-language works. Also compare ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'''s own ending theme song and most of the promos called the show simply ''Dexter's Lab.''

* ''Ore No Imouto Ga Konna Ni Kawaii Wake Ga Nai'' is sometimes called ''LightNovel/{{Oreimo}}'' on official products, and for the English release.

* ''Ore no Kanojo to Osananajimi ga Shuraba Sugiru'' is officially shortened to ''LightNovel/{{Oreshura}}''.

* ''Literature/BeastTamer'' was originally titled "The Beast Tamer Who was Kicked Out of the Hero Party Only to Meet the Strongest Cat-eared Girl" or 勇者パーティーを追放されたビーストテイマー、最強種の猫耳少女と出会う Yuusha Party wo Tsuihou Sareta Beast Tamer, Saikyou Shuzoku Nekomimi Shojo to Deau.

* Music/{{KMFDM}} was billed as Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid[[note]]"No mercy for the majority"[[/note]] at their first show. Supposedly it was changed when Englishman Raymond Watts joined the band and couldn't pronounce the name. The original name still shows up every so often in song lyrics or packaging, but it's obscure enough that many people still think it stands for Kill Mother Fucking Music/DepecheMode.

* The long-running (1978 to present) BBC Scotland gardening show ''The Beechgrove Garden'' shortened its title to ''Beechgrove'' in 2019, co-inciding with the departure of the last original presenter Jim [=McColl=].

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' is called "Creator/DreamWorks' ''Dragons''" in the commercials.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove The Emperor's New Groove 2: Kronk's New Groove]]'', is simply referred to by its subtitle.

* ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'' has "[=SutePuri=]," an abbreviation of "''Suterareta Purinsesu''" (Abandoned Princess) in its eyecatches. Translated in English subtitles as [=ScraPri=].

* ''[[LightNovel/MyMentalChoicesAre Ore no Nounai Sentakushi ga Gakuen Love Come o Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru]]'' (''My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with my School Romantic Comedy'') is shortened to ''[=NouCome=]''.

* The Japanese title of ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', ''Dungeon Ni Deai O Motomeru No Wa Machigatteiru No Darou Ka,'' is shortened to ''[=DanMachi=]'' and also known as ''Familia Myth''.

* ''Kono Subarashii Sekai Ni Shukufuku O'' has the official short title ''LightNovel/KonoSuba'', which is used throughout the anime, and also is the title used by Creator/YenPress' in the translations.

* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' is very often referred to -- even by the creator and some of the characters in the show -- simply as II. Which makes season 2, which is named ''Inanimate Insanity II'', have a possibly intentionally hilarious abbreviation.