# Iirc?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 26, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865 "2002-11-26T11:51:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/1 "2002-11-26T11:51:58Z")

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😕

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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/2 "2002-11-26T11:58:23Z")

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If I recall/remember correctly, IIRC.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/3 "2002-11-26T12:00:08Z")

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If I recall correctly

Have a look around ATMB AFAIK there’s a good few threads about this. They were helpfull AFAIC YMMV 😉

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/4 "2002-11-26T13:31:35Z")

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For All Features Great And Small / All Things Bright And Beautiful, check out **Arnold Winkelried** ’s thread in ATMB: [FAQ - technical issues](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103503). The FAQ thread contains the following, and more…

**For fairly comprehensive lists of abbreviations…**  
[A SDMB thread re: acronyms (abbreviations?)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2528)  
or here: [A netlingo website](http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm)

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**Author:** ![Weeks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@Weeks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeks)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/5 "2002-11-26T13:32:16Z")

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thanks.

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2002, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iirc/138865/6 "2002-11-26T14:28:48Z")

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If it’s an acryonym you’ll usually find a link to [acronymfinder.com](http://acronymfinder.com)

for example. [Penis](http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?p=dict&String=exact&Acronym=PENIS)

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