Many people get all tangled up in naming conventions. I have been tripped up by it also. But let me cut to the chase on naming. In the past many databases could only support object short object names. In SQL Server the length was 16 characters. IT came up with many rules, codes and abbreviations to keep the name short. This often led to cryptic names that made no sense to business. Prefixes, suffixes, class words – all part of this new language to allow short names. This is no longer required, since SQL Server allows 128 character names. The purpose of this standard is to eliminate the cryptic names.  We are not encouraging the use of short or long names – the requirement is that business names be used.