We find that abbreviations usually start in the first letter although this might be part of a prefix in both Latin and Old Georgian. This allows for keeping parafoveal preview information intact, see for instance Slattery et al. (2011); Rayner et al. (2012). Chanceaux et al. (2013) summarizing Dandurand et al. (2011) find that ”initial letters provide more information with respect to word identity than any other letter position”. Initital letters are together with the last letter the ”most visible” letters of a word, Dandurand et al. (2011), which means under more that due to the adjacent spaces, they can more easily be recognized.