As a longtime copy editor and certified word nerd, nothing drives me crazier than seeing words misused. Whether it’s people ...
The potential for problems in human genetic nomenclature was recognized in the 1960s. Because of these concerns, full guidelines for a nomenclature system were established and presented at the ...
Acronyms and abbreviations are both commonly used in the English language. But interestingly, there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated. For the record, an ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. English speakers use acronyms every day: NASA, AIDS, ZIP code, and NAFTA are examples of acronyms ...
If you happen to be acronymically impaired, that secret message means Rolling On the Floor Laughing from Too Much Information. I may have come of age in the Age of Aquarius, but I’m growing old in the ...
The use of modern-day acronyms has established common parlance; specifically among the renowned lives of Gen Z. Through digitalization, smartphones have enabled humanity to exchange dialogue within ...
Storage is awash in TLAs (three-letter acronyms). LUN, SAN, NAS, ILM, SWD, SAS, HBA, DAS, CAS and FAN are all acronyms that regularly appear in storage-related literature, publications and columns.