UKC

Mid-FB chat with a friend, and needing to change the thrust of the conversation, I just invented a new acronym:
Oan

On another note....

Not bad eh?
You got any you want to suggest and then we can try to get them into current usage!

In reply to Kimono:

Useful one for UKC - WHEDOG?

In reply to Ramblin dave:


Shouldn't that be WHTDOG?

In reply to Ramblin dave:
Hmm, that old chestnut

Or as my friend said:

Ois

In reply to Kimono:

'gtf...'

In reply to abseil:

What's He Ever...

In reply to Ramblin dave:
Or even wsedog?

In reply to Ramblin dave:

OK... what about (for UKC) WWHOAT?

In reply to Kimono:





Onan works better.

In reply to Turdus torquatus:
Quite possibly....but well have the pedant police on our backs if we try that!

In reply to Kimono:


Good point - got to be unprejudiced with these things.

In reply to Turdus torquatus:


Presumably if you used that acronym often, it'd be onanism?

In reply to aln:

Glad someone's paying attention.

In reply to Kimono:

Pita

(Pain in the arse)

In reply to PeterM:

Nice one

In reply to Kimono:

One of my favourites (some of my American colleagues thought it was a compliment when I put it in the comments box on company circular reports! Until they found out what it stood for!)
WALOB!
What a load of b*****ks!

In reply to Kimono:

NGAF.

I'm probably a rarity, but I actually think in acronyms. Saves time, I find.

In reply to Kimono:

ppppppp

In reply to marsbar:



New?

In reply to Kimono:

NMFP (from The Thick of It or maybe In the Loop)

In reply to Kimono:

just read a great memoir from the miners' strike

http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/The-1984-85-Miners-Strike-in-Nottinghamshire...

The author relates the tale of the police undercover units brought in to infiltrate in pit villages and originally monickered Fast action Response Teams before being quickly renamed Territorial Support Groups

In reply to Chambers:

Saves thinking as well, I suspect.

In reply to Blue Straggler:


Also SEP
somebody else's problem

As in 'thats definitely SEP'

In reply to Kimono:
DMR

Daily Mail Reader. Should come in handy for some.

In reply to stroppygob:



http://www.dmrbikes.com/

In reply to Ramblin dave:

WHEDOG? FA! HA"sc"

In reply to Kimono:




<pedant>

Strictly speaking, that's probably an initialism, not an acronym:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym#Nomenclature

Oxford confirms that there's no such word as "oan", and unless you can persuade people to start saying it as as a single word rather than as a string of letters, it's not an acronym. I suspect it's unlikely to take off as a true acronym since "oan" as a word looks like it would be far too easily confused with "own".

Turdus torquatus' alternative suggestion would be a true acronym.

</pedant>

In reply to Kimono:

I've started using GQR - grey quarry route. So one of those hard to read horrors that seem unreasonably difficult to onsight when compared to lovely chalked up euro-rock.

In reply to Martin W:

thanks for bringing up the distinction, but the wiki article you have linked to actually says that there no real clarity on the distinction between the two anyway!

I, and i suspect many others, shall continue to use the word acronym for both.
Anyway, initialism is a far less pleasant word to boot!

In reply to Rob Exile Ward:


No. It allows many more thoughts per minute. Wouldn't work for you, of course.

In reply to Kimono:

Many many years ago, when people were described as "YUPPIES" or "DINKs" (dual income, no kids) I invented "PILOK" (pathetic income, loads of kids) to describe how I felt after our 3rd was born

In reply to Rob Naylor:

like!

I guess that makes me a 'PINK'