ON-LINE ACRONYMS SLIP INTO F2F CHATS AS E-MAIL GROWS.(Business) Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) (1/26/1997)
...enriching our language through a flood of neologisms and acronyms. This is of academic interest to linguists and English...stream these days are either TLAs or FLAs - ``Three-Letter Acronyms'' or ``Four-Letter Acronyms.'' Perhaps the most common of these new shortened forms...nearly ubiquitous in the ...

What in an acronym?(Letters: keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming.)(Letter to the Editor) Residential Architect (3/1/2003)
...P.E., AIA, etc., are acceptable to add to one's name. When I see a Suzy Schmoozey C.L.U.A.B.C.D. or R.A. or AIBD, I wonder where these people got the notion that any of these letters represent a recognized professional title. Rob Thacker by e-mail

Acrimonious acronyms.(Letters: keep those cards, letters, and e-mail coming)(Letter to the Editor) Residential Architect (6/1/2003)
I would like to respond to Rob Thacker's letter to the editor in the March 2003 edition of residential architect (page 16) regarding the use of initials after one's name. I can answer his query on behalf of the American Institute of Building Design (AIBD) and the National Council of Building

QRC: we call it quirk.(online library reference center communications system, acronym does not stand for specific words) Computers in Libraries (2/1/1998)
The acronym associated with IPL's Reference...with via both Web forms and e-mail, and one that our volunteer...as both a Web server and an e-mail server. The administrators of...easily set up Web forms and e-mail addresses that feed messages...

ABBREVIATED HISTORY OF THE ACRONYM The Boston Globe (2/11/2001)
...1976 edition of Webster's Third Unabridged.) Maybe the acronym's ambiguity isn't surprising, considering the utter lack of logic behind acronym formation. Why do we pronounce AIDS as a word, but HIV...to imagine what might be off-limits to the determined acronymist. Then there are oddities, like CD-ROM - ...

Acronym diet will nourish consumers. Sunday Business (London, England) (5/28/2000)
...a whole range of internet acronyms. It used to be enough to own a PC, send e-mail, and know somebody anybody...millionaire. But now it seems the acronym stakes are rising. As an alphabetic...third-generation equivalent. The acronym of the moment is B2B. Having...too which have their own ...

A New Acronym for Sales Success. Wide-Format Imaging (10/1/2008)
A New Acronym for Sales Success BY DAVID FELLMAN I was reminded the...column I wrote nearly 10 years ago. It was titled IQDD--An Acronymic Approach to Printing Sales. That column introduced an acronym that stands for Identification, Qualification, Discussion & Decision. Now I have a new acronym for ...

RIO: GRAND ACRONYM TO PRIME IRAQ'S OIL PUMP.(CNY)(Column) The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) (4/24/2003)
...phrase that caught our attention: Task Force RIO: This is the acronym for a group set up by the occupying forces to help rehabilitate Iraq's oil system. It stands for Restore Iraqi Oil. The acronym largely escaped the news media until this week, when it...would be Petroleum Intelligence Weekly.) It could be a ...

Hatch's catchy acronyms can backfire Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (4/28/2004)
...advantageous. In those instances, he clearly writes out the acronym plainly for all to see. One bill without a pointed-out acronym is his Medicare Educational Regulatory Reform and Contracting...someone saying, "Mercy, please, I can't take all these acronyms." Maybe we should propose the ACRONYM ...