Might be the case, I still see no reason to abbreviate so short words. BTW, no offense, but I wouldn't consider DMD to have good code style or something to aim for. It has many functions with a bunch of single letter variable names making the code harder to follow.

Why so afraid of slightly longer names? Type the name once and then use autocompletion. I expect everyone to have an editor that supports autocompletion at least in the same file.