Some Peculiarities of the Internet Abbreviations Formation

Nowadays many shortenings which can be found in different spheres of life and they are predictable as a result of scientific, international integration processes in economics development. As a result the problem of new realia naming appears. Most of such names in Englishappear on the bases of word combinations or complex words that give a chance to reflect necessary features of this or that notion in its full meaning and accuracy. To simplify these long words and word combinations abbreviation as one of the ways of shortening is used. Sometimes a term is shortened to only one main component, sometimes abbreviations and other types of shortening can be used.The aim of the article is to show Internet abbreviations as one of the most popular type of shortenings in English and to dwell upon such questions as what information is fixed by Internet abbreviations, what are the ways of their introduction into the text, what main functionsthey have, and how abbreviations of such a type are built up.