Context Clues

Every family seems to develop their own "isms," and our family is no exception. Anyone who has spent significant time around us knows that our trademark Johnsonism is what I like to call "Context Clues." I must both acknowledge and possibly rebuke Phil's college roommate, Jordan, for helping to instigate this family idiosyncrasy. "Context Clues" works like this: in any given two words, the last word is limited to simply a letter. For example, "It's a beautiful d." Using a little common sense and, as the title suggests, context clues, this sentence simply states, "It's a beautiful day." See if you can figure these out (answers at bottom):

1) a babbling b
2) electric b
3) hot c
4) frozen d
5) granola b
6) to g

It would be un-American to have rules without exceptions so the exceptions are as follows:

1) If the abbreviation takes longer to say that the original word, you should not use the abbreviation. For example, "wake b" (board) works, but "boiling w" (water) doesn't. Typically, the abbreviation is a "c," "d," "e," "g," "v" or "b."
2) You almost never use an abbreviation for more than one word at a time
3) The word abbreviated must be the second word, not the first

Feel free to incorporate this Johnsonism into your own family if it helps you communicate more humorously and/or efficiently; we have found it to accomplish both those goals. Also, please add any suggestions that might improve on our context c's.

ANSWERS:
1) babbling brook, 2) electric blanket, 3) hot chocolate, 4) frozen dinner, 5) granola bar, 6) to go