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posted on 4/5/20

Yeah it's just lazy af

posted on 4/5/20

u n t.

posted on 4/5/20

Forgot to mention I was referring the the use of CR7, R9 etc although my all time favourite was DL10.

posted on 4/5/20

Typical response from you.

posted on 4/5/20

Obvs

posted on 4/5/20

You have left yourself wide open with this one , K W I M !

posted on 4/5/20

Yeah it's like how MUFC can mean both Man Utd and Maidenhead Utd

posted on 4/5/20

comment by Pun (U21588)
posted 1 minute ago
Yeah it's like how MUFC can mean both Man Utd and Maidenhead Utd
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<laugh >

posted on 4/5/20

What about Minehead and Musselborough !

posted on 4/5/20

Well there you go! Post something nasty about MUFC and you don't know how many people you will upset.

comment by Fivio (U21807)

posted on 4/5/20

lol
rofl
lmao
ffs
brb
syl

Are the only abbreviations I use

comment by Shijiu (U22385)

posted on 4/5/20

LMFAO.

Gd9t ya'll.

posted on 4/5/20

Acronyms

posted on 4/5/20

Yes. Acronyms. My apologies.
Would those young lady Russian gymnasts be called Acronymphs?

posted on 5/5/20

Wait a cotton-picking minute here. Those are abbreviations, not acronyms. I was going to bed when I posted that apology but my brain must have already been asleep.

posted on 5/5/20

To be fair the line is blurred.

Typically, 'abbreviation' would be used to refer to one word being shortened e.g.: CM for centimetre. An acronym is when you take the first letter of each word and put them together e.g.: PL for Premier League. You could say all acronyms are abbreviations, but not all abbreviations are acronyms.

posted on 5/5/20

An acronym is when the abbreviation taken from the first letters of a number of words is pronounced as a word on its own though, for example FIFA or UEFA.

posted on 5/5/20

"All acronyms are abbreviations but not all abbreviations are acronyms".
As in :
"Alma Cogan is dead but not all of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan". That helped me to understand "Modern Maths" when they first introduced that rubbish at school.

comment by Shijiu (U22385)

posted on 5/5/20

What about A-hole?

Would it be an acronym? an abbreviation? an acroviation? Or maybe an abbrevionym? Abbronym maybe?

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