short form vs the long and short

short form

noun
  • A word with the same meaning as another formed by removing one or more of the syllables of the longer word, and considered a word in its own right rather than an abbreviation. 

  • Particularly in Slavic languages, a shortened form of the adjective, used predicatively. 

the long and short

noun
  • The gist; the essence or substance; the most important or salient features. 

How often have the words short form and the long and short occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )