Abbreviation postings
abbreviation postings
not here: truncations of complex expressions, passing mentions of specific abbreviations
☛ GP, 5/24/04: KiloGhits and MegaGhits: measuring web frequency:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000951.html
proposed abbreviations for web searches
☛ PR, 5/24/04: Ghits – and Whits?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000954.html
proposed abbreviations for web searches
☛ GP, 5/25/04: Webhits on Google per gigapage: A replacement proposal:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000958.html
ordinary abbreviations: for physical units; proposed abbreviations for web searches
☛ ML, 4/30/05: Ambiguity:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002113.html
alphabetic abbreviations: interpreting them in context
☛ ML, 6/25/05: The ships, it shuts everything up:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002264.html
clippings of initial material (“back-end abbreviations”)
☛ ML, 6/27/05: Bizzerk:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002269.html
clippings of initial material (“back-end abbreviations”)
☛ BZ, 12/30/05: From Nabisco to NaNoWriMo:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002734.html
alphabetic abbreviations: blend acronyms
☛ GP, 1/13/06: No tattoed acronym:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002760.html
alphabetic abbreviations: terminology
☛ GP, 1/19/06: A prescriptivist rant? Get a clue:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002768.html
alphabetic abbreviations: terminology
☛ GP, 6/28/06: There’s no battle, Morgan!:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003299.html
not clippings: till, though
☛ ML, 8/21/06: Term for shifting plural s to the end of initialisms and acronyms?:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003484.html
alphabetic abbreviations: plurals
☛ GP, 8/21/06: No plural shifting term:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003486.html
alphabetic abbreviations: plurals
☛ AZ, 9/3/06: University name bulletins:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003537.html
alphabetic abbreviations in university names
☛ AZ, 9/5/06: The the in The Ohio State University:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003548.html
with note on the abbreviation tOSU
☛ AZ, 9/7/06: Orphan initialisms:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003555.html
☛ AZ, 9/9/06: Abbreviatory oddities:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003562.html
alphabetic abbreviations: orphan abbreviations
☛ ML, 10/20/06: Annals of self-censorship: Avoiding the F-letter:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003692.html
alphabetic abbreviations: taboo avoidance within them
☛ ML, 4/8/07: Hed, dek, lede, graf, tk: Live with it:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004380.html
assorted newsroom abbreviations
☛ ML, 8/3/07: Wev:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004781.html
clipping wev ‘whatever’
☛ AZ, 8/25/07: Another year of taboo avoidance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004855.html
avoidance of effing
☛ AZ, 9/17/07: (an)arthrous abbreviations:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004923.html
alphabetic abbreviations: arthrousness, initialisms vs. acronyms
☛ GP, 1/25/08: Lower-cased initialisms:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005347.html
alphabetic abbreviations: upper/lower case in acronyms
☛ BZ, 9/18/08: Shattering the illusions of texting:
abbreviations (of many types) in, or not in, texting
☛ AZ, 10/30/08: Periods:
alphabetic abbreviations: periods
☛ GP, 11/17/08: The WAGs back home:
WAGs ‘wives and girlfriends’
☛ ML, 12/28/08: Filled pauses and faked audio:
[in AMZ comment] upper case in acronyms
☛ GP, 2/5/09: Pakigate, Sootygate, Gollygate:
clippings
☛ BZ, 3/20/09: Oh no, it’s ngmoco:):
alphabetic abbreviations: acronym-initialism hybrid
☛ GP, 5/16/09: Egg blast:
[in comments] various clippings
☛ 5/18/19: Hybrid initial-letter abbreviations:
alphabetic abbreviations: acronym-initialism hybrids
☛ 5/19/09: Coerced acronyms:
alphabetic abbreviations: acronyms
☛ BZ, : 6/23/09: The first proposal for “Ms.” (1901):
ordinary abbreviations: periods
☛ 7/4/09: Periods and type size:
alphabetic abbreviations: periods
☛ ML, 7/24/09: Write like me?:
[in comments] vs., vs, v., v
☛ GP, 7/31/09: Coming August 7:
ordinary abbreviations: periods
☛ ML, 8/3/09: Do not leave if you can help:
codes [in telegraphs]
☛ AZ, 8/4/09: Unidiomatic:
clippings [mollymooly comment on clippings with –s: maths, turps, meths]
☛ 8/29/09: Inventory of postings on abbreviation:
☛ 9/1/09: Acronyms:
terminology
☛ 9/20/09: More initialism complexities:
eye initalisms, regular initialisms, orphan initialisms
☛ 2/12/10: Acronym fun:
taser
☛ 10/18/12: For short:
clipping, initialism, acronym
☛ 3/24/13: Cyanide and Happiness roundup:
LOL treated as acronym
☛ 4/16/13: Initialistic ambiguity:
CBT
☛ 5/1/13: Acronym of the week:
acronym Visconti
☛ 8/24/14: An orphan initialism:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/08/24/an-orphan-initialism/
YMCA as orphan initialism
☛ 10/26/14: On the orphan initialism front:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2014/10/26/on-the-orphan-initialism-front/
PFLAG as orphan initialism
☛ 7/2/15: Initialisms, raunchy and not:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/07/02/initialisms-raunchy-and-not/
BJ for Beijing, blowjob, names
☛ 8/6/15: Coordinate initialisms:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/06/coordinate-initialisms/
initialisms of the form x&y
☛ 8/23/15: Kraken! And GEICO!:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/08/23/kraken-and-geico/
the acronym GEICO
☛ 9/21/15: Amber 2:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/09/21/amber-2/
the backronym AMBER alert and the (carefully devised) acronym (Navy) SEALs, both all-caps
☛ 2/22/16: The pronoun strip:
http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/02/22/the-pronoun-strip/
clipping pro for professional or prostitute
☛ 5/25/16: Ballad of beef:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/25/ballad-of-beef/
three-letter country abbreviations (USA, CAN, GBR, AUS)
☛ 5/28/16: The snail days of summer:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/05/28/the-snail-days-of-summer/
clipping ‘za for pizza
☛ 6/12/16: Rainbows and b8r bait:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/06/13/rainbows-and-b8r-bait/
clippings bate and bator
☛ 7/9/16: Two cat cartoons:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/07/09/two-cat-cartoons/
#1 with Cat for Caterpillar machine
☛ 11/13/16: Lukas is back!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/13/lukas-is-back/
truncation: vegan leather > vegan
☛ 12/9/16: NPO:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/09/npo/
medical abbreviations
☛ 12/23/16: and the horse you rode in on:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/23/and-the-art-horse-you-rode-in-on/
euphemistic abbreviation
☛ 12/23/16: Mac Daddy Santa:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/12/23/mac-daddy-santa/
mackeral ‘pimp’ > mack, mac
☛ 1/1/17: Morning names for the new year:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/01/morning-names-for-the-new-year/
nickname Ozzy / Ozzie
☛ 3/2/17: Annals of p.r. pitches:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/02/annals-of-p-r-pitches/
initialism SEO
☛ 3/27/17: JoBroButts, Hills Bros. coffee, and gaybros:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/27/jobrobutts-hills-bros-coffee-and-gaybros/
acronymic “blend” JoBro; Bros. for Brothers
☛ 4/17/17: Chub and chums in the morning
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/17/chub-and-chums-in-the-morning/
chubby> > chub
☛ 4/25/17: You can call me Al:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/04/25/you-can-call-me-al/
names of the form /mIni Cæl/: acronyms, clippings, nicknames
☛ 7/25/17: From Tex-Mex to naked rugby:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/07/25/from-tex-mex-to-naked-rugby/
abbreviation in Spanish nicknames (and English too)
☛ 8/30/17: Reduced questions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/30/reduced-questions/
NP reduced questions
☛ 9/1/17: BBC for Labor Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/09/01/bbc-for-labor-day/
the initialism BBC, in various senses
☛ 11/15/17: Wet words:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/15/wet-words/
clipping kidney > kid (in tap a kidney)
☛ 4/14/18: New frontiers in POPs:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/14/new-frontiers-in-pops/
letter-based onomatopoeia; the initialism O.C.D.
☛ 4/23/18: A war of initialism:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/23/a-war-of-initialism/
initialisms, orphan initialisms, reinterpreted initialisms
☛ 5/1/18: Initialisms off the rails:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/04/initialisms-off-the-rails/
xkcd on unpacking initialisms
☛ 5/10/18: slide in(to) (y)our DM’s:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/10/slide-into-your-dms/
slang initialism DM
☛ 5/12/18: For Mothers Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/12/for-mothers-day/
motherfucker clipped to mother
☛ 7/3/18: World UFO Day:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/07/03/world-ufo-day/
UFO as an initialism
☛ 8/25/18: Fantasy originalism:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/08/25/fantasy-originalism/
pronunciation of the initialism GIF
☛ 10/20/18: She called herself Lil’:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/20/she-called-herself-lil/
Lil as a nickname for Lillian; Li’l and Lil’ as shortenings of little
☛ 10/24/18: Three exercises in cartoon understanding:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/24/three-exercises-in-cartoon-understanding/
PACER as acronym
☛ 11/29/18: A grotesque word:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/11/29/a-grotesque-word/
clippings gar and Gar
☛ 1/20/19: One more January 20th penguin:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/01/20/one-more-january-20th-penguin/
orphan initialism CIBC (Canadian banking company)
☛ 2/6/19: The Pearls:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/06/three-pearls/
nads for gonads
☛ 2/14/19: Revisiting 26: LGBT etc. etc.:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/14/revisiting-26-lgbt-etc-etc/
initialism for the domain of sexuality, identity, and practices
☛ 2/21/19: For gay penguins, science, and Canada!::
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/21/for-gay-penguins-science-and-canada/
retard as clipping
☛ 5/18/19: Ostentatiously playful allusions:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/05/18/ostentatiously-playful-allusions/
OPA as acronym (also as initialism); EEQ as acronym
☛ 6/29/19: A bit more reaping:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/06/29/a-bit-more-reaping/
gram as clipping of Instagram
☛ 8/31/19: Come lay your carnal weapons by:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/08/31/come-lay-your-carnal-weapons-by/
carny as clipping of carnival (+ -y)
☛ 9/12/19: BOY Party!:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/09/12/boy-party/
BOY as acronym (here, for Beginning of Year); acronyms vs. initialisms (like BYO)
☛ 10/25/19: B.Z.P.D.:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/10/25/b-z-p-d/
police department initialisms
☛ 11/3/19: Another BYOB:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/11/03/another-byob/
initialisms, clippings, conventional abbreviations
☛ 1/8/20: There was a singer had a dog:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/08/there-was-a-singer-had-a-dog/
initialistic abbreviation NGO ‘nongovernmental organization’
☛ 1/27/20: Predicative / locational:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/26/predicative-locational/
(metonymic) short-form locational expressions
☛ 2/9/20: The rose parade:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/02/09/the-rose-parade/
the verb comp ‘provide for free’ from complimentary
☛ 4/17/20: Quick shot: a job title:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/04/17/quick-shot-a-job-title/
ER, doc, per diem, locum, temp
☛ 6/23/20: For Alan Turing:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/23/for-alan-turing/
orphan initialism NPL
☛ 6/24/20: Annals of ambiguity: I feel like making it rough from Schrödinger:
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/06/24/annals-of-ambiguity-i-feel-like-making-it-rough-for-schrodinger
signs and labels
☛ 8/5/20: Caterpillars spinning platters
https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/08/05/caterpillars-spinning-platters/
initialism DJ
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