# Acronyms

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [November 9, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436 "2001-11-09T14:51:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436/1 "2001-11-09T14:51:38Z")

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I don;t know where this question should go, but I’m putting it here.

Is there a listing of acronyms somewhere? I can figure most of them out (IRL, IMHO, IMNSHO, WTF) but some just escape me.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436/2 "2001-11-09T15:56:47Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=2528](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=2528)

Also, [http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/abbrev.html](http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/abbrev.html)

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**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436/3 "2001-11-09T16:33:45Z")

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Muchas Gracias!

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**Author:** ![Hombre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@Hombre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hombre)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2001, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms/92436/4 "2001-11-10T04:23:31Z")

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Long time - no see!

😃