How do you spell the colloquially shortened form of breakfast?

how-do-you-spell-breaky-brekkie-brekky

Breakie?
Brekky?
Breaky?
Brekkie?
Breky?
Breci?

EDIT 6 YEARS LATER…

This blog post ranks well in Google and those curious to know how to spell ‘the colloquially shortened form of breakfast’ probably arrive here disappointed!

I have done some further research.

Although ‘breakfast’ obviously has ‘break’ in it, when shortened and adding ‘y’ or ‘ie’ upon first reading, it could easily sound like ‘brake eee’.

And so the only two left as genuine contenders in the final: BREKKY and BREKKIE.

I spoke to a linguistic expert and her conclusion was that both are acceptable because phonetically they both clearly communicate the same idea.

My final decision?

BREKKY.

1) I used to work in a youth centre that ran a “BREKKY CLUB”

2) BREKKY is shorter than BREKKIE and so does a better job at abbreviation.

BREKKY IT IS.

Jim Collins dot com

www.jimcollins.com is a fantastic resource. Jim’s book Good to great leadership is very good – and this site has some great tools to think through leadership.

One of Jim’s observations of great business (and social sector) leaders is not only a will and drive for the cause but a character of humility. A level 5 leader:

“Builds enduring greatness through a blend of greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will.”