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7 Citations sigles et acronymes US, blogmarks.netWith more than 575,000 human-edited entries, Acronym Finder is the world's largest and most comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms. Combined with the Acronym Attic, Acronym Finder contains more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations., blogmarks.net Dictionnaire intégrant un moteur de recherche qui pemet d'obtenir les définitions de plus de 480000 acronymes et abréviations., blogmarks.net
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1 Citation In the ?olden days? young gentlemen or ladies, when feeling bold, might write SWALK across the back of an envelope to their beloved. SWALK (Sealed with a loving kiss) has plenty of modern equivalents for that text or e-mail including ? NORWICH ? knickers off ready when I come home .LDR ? long distance relationship PAW ? parents are watching TIME ? tears in my eyes TOY ? thinking of you YOYO ? you?re on your own MUSM ? miss you so much ROR ? relationship on rocks TOPCA ? till our paths cross, technorati.com
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Ben's Incredible Big List of Initialisms and Acronyms (BIBLIA) 1 Citation
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AbbreviationZ - The A to Z of Acronyms, Abbreviations & Initialisms on the Net 1 Citation
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1 Citation OIG and OPR Confirm Politicization of Hiring at DOJ;AG Staff Overly Fond of Alphabet Soup, Says FBI, technorati.com
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The Internet?s Typographical and Grammatical Morass 1 Citation Seeded at Newsvine: I am stumped by how to excerpt the language on message boards and blogs. Take a passage signed by zipthwung, an astute online commenter: ?pornography if for the ruling classes and their violent vulgar all consuming appetites. Or their slaves.? Technorati Tags: acronyms, grammar, initialisms, language, pluralizing-apostrophe, technorati.com
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Notes from the road, part II: Mama MIA! 1 Citation I doubt that I will ever own a car made by KIA for various reasons, including the idiot commercials the company used for a time (one involving dog urination). And though I?m not particularly superstitious, I believe I would be somewhat uncomfortable sitting in something sporting letters that mean to many?including this child of the Vietnam era??Killed in Action.? The populace is perhaps more familiar with the related military abbreviation?MIA, ?Missing in Action.? MIA is also the air-travel de, technorati.com
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Is it pronounced Vuhpilf or Veepilf? 1 Citation Subscribe to the ADS-L email forum.* Today there's this offering from one contributor who thinks he might have come across the Acronym (or Initialism) of the Year: VPILF or maybe it's VPilf (which unpacks just as you'd expect, even if you don't know how to pronounce it). There's even a corresponding web site: http://www.vpilf.com/ Remember, you read it here first, unless you didn't. And, technorati.com
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What?s up, shorty? - Acronyms and Abbreviations 1 Citation NASA; or f, technorati.com
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1 Citation Being a longtime technical editor, I've seen my share of acronyms (in many cases, actually initialisms). One of my favorites is FRACAS, which I encountered on a Department of Defense proposal many years ago. I believe it stood for "failure reporting analysis corrective action system." Or something like that. You have to figure someone threw that one in there just for fun, to make sure the bureaucrats were still reading. (My spilling the beans on this means some dire breach of international secur, technorati.com
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