Some
acronyms can make you chortle, such as WIMP or KREEP.
My observation is the average lifespan of the latest and greatest business
acronym, and the business initiative it represents, is about 10 years before it wears out its welcome and fades away.
BMW Stands for: Bayerische Motoren Werke Which means: It's an expensive car but the
acronym has a rather downto-earth explanation.
If done so, in due time
acronyms like PAT and QbD would disappear from pharma's formulation vocabulary.
One of the more confusing uses of
acronyms I have ever witnessed happened during a trip to Minnesota.
Most examples of what we commonly call
acronyms are actually initialisms, such as FBI or NYSE, because they do not actually form words.
According to NSG, the app is an easy to use, searchable list of many of the commonly used
acronyms used by the FAA and the aviation industryIt is downloadable for iOS (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Android (NASDAQ: GOOG) mobile devices including iPhones, iPads, and Android hand-held and tablet mobile devices.
Distinction between abbreviations and
acronyms is often arbitrary, because the same distinction may be pronounced by some as a word and others by reciting the names of the letters.
The benefits of the use of
acronyms in general documentation may appear obvious.
As specific
acronyms become common, some of them enter the standard lexicon.
All I am saying is that care should be taken to Pre-Qualify
Acronyms (PQA), or PQA (Post-Qualify
Acronyms).
It's an
acronym, with the initials standing for "Technology Without An Interesting Name.
