Acronyms and abbreviations are both common, but there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated.

President Donald Trump didn't like his new nickname 'TACO'. Here's why people are calling Trump TACO and the meaning behind ...

From informal texts to published academic works, these common abbreviations appear everywhere. But do you know what they really mean? From Dr. to Dept., we rely on common abbreviations every day ...

That makes you look like you’re either kind of lame or kind of angry (a dad, basically). But don’t worry if those abbreviations have you mad ASL (which in this context is “mad as hell,” as ...

The abbreviations in the above example, you see, all come from a list recently sent out by unscramblerer.com of “Canada’s most searched text abbreviations 2025.” So it appears that many people are ...

If you've been in the market for a new computer, there's a good chance you've seen the term AIO thrown around. It can be difficult to assess what the term means, since it is extremely context ...

Typing ‘ty’ instead of thank you, for instance, can come across less like gratitude and more like a shrug in digital form. Without full words, text messages now resemble ancient scrolls — cryptic, ...

More importantly, Discord is filled with younger people who use abbreviations like it’s second nature. We messaged random users asking them to recommend TV shows to watch. One set of messages fully ...

Abbreviations like ‘brb’ and ‘plz’ may seem benign. But new research shows they can make senders appear less sincere – and even undermine budding romances.

My brother's text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: "hru," "wyd," "plz"—truncated, cryptic and never quite satisfying to receive. I'll often find myself second-guessing ...

The #1 abbreviation Californians wanted to know was PMO—Put Me On. ICL—I Can't Lie came in second. With a little help from unscramblerer.com, we decipher text abbreviations.