ICYMI (in case you missed it), acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms are ways to shorten phrases and ideas both in normal speech and through texting and email. But a common FAQ (frequently asked ...
Are you confused with Internet language? Did you know ‘SMH’, for example, has been so pervasive, it has managed to cement its place in the online Oxford dictionary. The company analysed the number of ...
And in the midst of the mangled hyperbole that stands in its place is often that most dull and lazy attempt at rhetoric: the initialism. The ubiquity of trite Americanisms such as “WTF” or “LMAO” is ...
LGBT is an evolving abbreviation, a process that, in and of itself, isn’t so remarkable. Language morphs all the time, but what’s happening with LGBT — like nearly all things pertaining to lesbian, ...