Discover the meaning behind the industry's most common abbreviations.

From informal texts to published academic works, these common abbreviations appear everywhere. But do you know what they really mean? From Dr. to Dept., we rely on common abbreviations every ...

ICYMI (in case you missed it), acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms are ways to shorten phrases and ideas both in normal speech and through texting and email. But a common FAQ (frequently asked ...

Understand common internet abbreviations & acronyms with this quick guide. Master 'WFH', 'LMAO', 'BTW', 'LOL', 'TY', and 'YW' ...

This post may contain links from our sponsors and affiliates, and Flywheel Publishing may receive compensation for actions taken through them. Languages are full of acronyms – words made up of the ...

In a recent newsletter, we asked the question “Who’s minding the acronym store?” The major point there was that our industry has a most confusing habit of reusing the same combinations of letters for ...

Spend long enough cruising chat rooms, message boards or question-and-answer sites, and you'll get used to common internet acronyms such as LOL, WTH, FTW and AFAIK. Certain niche sites, such as ...

IDK. That could be a reaction to a study just published in the scientific journal eLife The study showed how much the use of acronyms in scientific publications has exploded like TNT over the past 70 ...

Have you ever been texting and thought, "idk" to a question? Or has someone made a statement that made you say "smh." Maybe you are confused by all these acronyms and Internet slang examples. New ...