Archive for Acronyms
Acronyms as titles for US laws
SCIF
Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility
BBEG
Bill-name acronyms
Tea Ey Bee Ell Eee
Gimme a T! Gimme an A! Gimme a B-L-E! What's that spell?
NSA relationship
Mnemonic acronyms for diving
The PADI (scuba instruction) people should hire a consultant from the medical-training industry to come up with mnemonic acronyms for their lists of “five steps to do such-and-such” or “nine...
LPT
LPT, I recently learned, stands for Life Pro Tip: a tip about how to do something in real life (as opposed to on a computer). My understanding is that, as...
Two-letter abbreviations with slashes
In English, most of our two-letter abbreviations are written as either two letters by themselves, or two letters with one or two periods. But there are a few that are...