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What acronyms get on your wig?

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    #32
    lbc2019
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    Some of those are initialisms tho


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    #33
    selwyn froggitt
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    UKIP


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    #34
    dudara
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    DH, DD or DS - as in darling husband, daughter or son


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    #35
    Three More Big Sleeps
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    StreetLight wrote: »
    When people post the word LUAS in capitals, thinking it is an acronym. It's not, it's just a regular Irish word - Luas.

    Conversely, when mainstream news outlets (which should know better) refer to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as "Nasa" and not "NASA". NASA refers to itself as NASA.

    Edit: I've just checked the Guardian's style guide :(

    "Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unicef, unless it can be considered to have entered the language as an everyday word, such as awol, laser and, more recently, asbo, pin number and sim card."

    @Streetlight: your "Luas" assertion still stands :)


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    #36
    Cee-Jay-Cee
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    Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Well to be fair, D.U.P is understandable since they are a complete shower of cnuts.

    Its spelled C U N T S


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    #37
    Aglomerado
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    LOL - does my ****ing head in

    or worse again"looooooooooool."

    I also detest YOLO. Carpe diem for idiots...


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    #38
    xi5yvm0owc1s2b
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    The standard naming convention for institutes of technology in Ireland is [Town] Institute of Technology. But that would have left the Tralee Institute of Technology going by the acronym TIT, so it's called the Institute of Technology Tralee instead. :)


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    #39
    Aglomerado
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    Adriana Ancient Badminton wrote: »
    The standard naming convention for institutes of technology in Ireland is [Town] Institute of Technology. But that would have left the Tralee Institute of Technology going by the acronym TIT, so it's called the Institute of Technology Tralee instead. :)

    Same for Tallaght! Waterford did well though.


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    #40
    The Pheasant2
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    Backronyms piss me off even more - they're invariably dumb and I struggle to understand how people fall for them. Things like fúck actually being an acronym for "fornication under consent of the King" or Adidas being an acronym for "all day I dream about sports".
    Even worse they're often reported and promulgated by "Interesting" "Facts" pages.

    Just stupid.


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    #41
    764dak
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    Acronym: "an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word (e.g. ASCII, NASA).Compare with initialism."

    Initialism: "an abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately (e.g. BBC).Compare with acronym."


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