Now, a decade or two later, however, senior citizens are texting each other furiously.Īll that senior texting got us wondering. (You can hear it, right here.) We all know that text messaging started out as something only kids would do. In many cases the acronym becomes the standard term and the full form is only used in explanatory contexts.This week on Car Talk, Tom and Ray opened the show with a little discussion of texting. They are pronounced as words rather than as a series of letters, for example, AIDS, laser, scuba, UNESCO, and do not have periods. 4 Acronyms are initialisms that have become words in their own right, or similar words formed from parts of several words. ATS Acute Thespian Syndrome (the patient is faking illness) ATSWWT Always Thinks Something’s Wrong With Them. AGMI Ain’t Gonna Make It ART Assuming Room Temperature (recently deceased). ABITHAD Another Blithering Idiot Thinks He’s A Doctor. Practice varies with regard to periods, with current usage increasingly in favor of omitting them, especially when the initialism consists entirely of capital letters. Here is my list of Funny Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms. 3 Initialisms are made up of the initial letters of words and are pronounced as separate letters: CIA (or C.I.A.), NYC, pm (or p.m.), U.S. Another kind of contraction is the type with an apostrophe marking the omission of letters: can't = cannot, didn't = did not, you've = you have. Such forms are invariably followed by a period. Sometimes shortenings are altered to facilitate their pronunciation or spelling: bike = bicycle2 Contractions are abbreviated forms in which letters from the middle of the full form have been omitted, for example, Dr. See i’ve got a funny car acronym for each brand :D) Buick Big Ugly Indestructible Cat Killer (american classic, don’t sue me for exaggerated care of cars) Cadillac Company Always Denies Its Lawful Liability After Collisions or Crazy And Dumbass Idiots Like.

Some become the standard forms, and the full forms are then regarded as formal or technical, for example, bus = omnibus, taxi = taxicab, deli = delicatessen, zoo = zoological garden. Bmw Bring More Women (bought by shallow image conscious stockbrokers. Such shortenings are often but not always informal. In the cases when they form words in their own right, the period is omitted, for example, hippo = hippopotamus, limo = limousine.

1 Shortenings of words usually consist of the first few letters of the full form and are usually spelled with a final period when they are still regarded as abbreviations, for example, cont. Types of abbreviations: There are four main kinds of abbreviations: shortenings, contractions, initialisms, and acronyms.

Funny abbreviations for words