I know that "Jackson jr." means Jackson the junior, but what about Jackson the elder? How do they abbreviate "elder" in American English?
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Skill, as you mentioned is too short to be abbreviated and no abbreviations will make sense for the word. However, I've seen in many places, where an image that represents skills is used to convey the same meaning.
Not every English word has a well-known or well-accepted abbreviation.
Google is probably your best friend here, just enter "Exercise abbreviation" to see what comes up.
I have seen ex. as an abbreviation for example in more than one text, and ther e is the very well known e.g. which is short for for example.
If you cannot discover a common abbreviation you can invent one, and it would be a good idea to footnote it or otherwise provide a legend indicating what the abbreviation stands for if it's not obvious.
Abbreviating on syllable boundaries is best, keeping in mind that in English, double consonants usually belong to separate syllables. E.g. abbreviate lemma as lem.
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They don't, because the word used is "senior", not "elder". ("Senior" is abbreviated "Sr.")
When referring to relatives, "elder" is most often used for siblings. In this context, its opposite is "younger". Since these are comparative terms rather than labels, there is not generally a need to abbreviate them.