Question: Is it Engg because it is suppressing the middle characters of the word, like Eng...g ?
That's really amusing from my perspective (having lived in an Asian country) because for us Westerns, most abbreviations come from using the first few characters of a word.
I've seen the same pattern in Japanese: The word "OSU", which people usually conjure to salute each other in the morning or as they enter a dojo or fight, is actually an abbreviation of "Ohayou Gozaimasu", built in the same way as I imagine the Indian English's "Engg" was built: Taking only the first and the last parts of the term. O(hayou gozaima)SU.
That's really amusing from my perspective (having lived in an Asian country) because for us Westerns, most abbreviations come from using the first few characters of a word.
I've seen the same pattern in Japanese: The word "OSU", which people usually conjure to salute each other in the morning or as they enter a dojo or fight, is actually an abbreviation of "Ohayou Gozaimasu", built in the same way as I imagine the Indian English's "Engg" was built: Taking only the first and the last parts of the term. O(hayou gozaima)SU.