Acronyms and initialisms are everywhere in real English—from messages to conversations at work. This quick lesson breaks down common examples, explains how they’re used, and helps learners understand ...

Mystery solved! Here's what TL;DR means and why you keep seeing it online. It can be hard to stay current with the latest slang. Language (and internet culture) continues to evolve, resulting in an ...

Language is changing all the time, and in the internet age, that pace of change has only accelerated. But it’s not just our language that’s moving faster. By shifting a great deal of our daily ...

Gone are the days when everything we say is written out in full. Some of it started when we had to type a number four times just to get an “S,” but even since we’ve got normal keyboards on phones, ...

In the fire service, we enjoy using abbreviations and acronyms for things. Now within the context of this article, when I say fire service, I am considering all the different types of responses a ...

This page displays General Motors acronyms and abbreviations from today and the past. This page is a continuous work in progress and may not include every GM acronym or GM abbreviation. If you find ...

Texting has its own language – sometimes literally. While most of us have a handle on the basics like “LOL” and “IDK,” a new study from language learning platform Preply reveals that even the most ...

Lasers have been around for centuries, and over the past few decades, humans have found numerous applications for them. For instance, the US Navy uses lasers to shoot drones out of the sky. You'll ...

Have you ever typed an email and then questioned whether you were misusing a word or abbreviation? As a longtime copy editor who earns a living correcting other people’s grammatical errors, I pay ...

If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to your texts, spell out words instead of abbreviating them, according to new research. If you want to seem sincere and receive more responses to ...

Sending abbreviations in text messages is second nature to many people, with the abbreviations for “laugh out loud” or “be right back” among the many that are exchanged. But those instinctive ...