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A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is as the phrase suggests an abbreviation consisting of three letters. The abbreviation for TLA, TLA, has a special status among abbreviations and to some is humorous since abbreviations that are three-letters long are very common and TLA is, in fact, a TLA.
Basic texting abbreviations 8. BC. In texting terms, the second and third letters of the alphabet don’t refer to the time “before Christ.” “BC” is short for “because.”
initialism = an abbreviation pronounced wholly or partly using the names of its constituent letters, e.g., CD = compact disc, pronounced cee dee; pseudo-blend = an abbreviation whose extra or omitted letters mean that it cannot stand as a true acronym, initialism, or portmanteau (a word formed by combining two or more words).
A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.
Today's Wordle Answer for #1273 on Friday, December 13, 2024. Today's Wordle answer on Friday, December 13, 2024, is BOXER. How'd you do? Next: Catch up on other Wordle answers from this week.
This table of three-letter acronyms contains links to all letter-letter-letter combinations from AAA to DZZ, listed in the form [[{{letter}}{{letter}}{{letter}}]].. As specified at Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Combining terms on disambiguation pages, terms which differ only in capitalisation are commonly combined into a single disambiguation page.
The acronym is believed to have originated in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. [ citation needed ] Time magazine used the term in their June 16, 1942, issue: "Last week U.S. citizens knew that gasoline rationing and rubber requisitioning were snafu."
Highlighted rows indicate those entries in which the three-letter codes differ from column to column. The last column indicates the number of codes present followed by letters to indicate which codes are present (O for Olympic, F for FIFA, and I for ISO) and dashes when a code is absent; capital letters indicate codes which match; lower case ...