It's tickets, not bloody tix

[ElizabethZott1961]

It drives me up the wall. I've seen it on here this morning. Win tix for XYZ, just stop it.

I must live under a rock 😂, I’ve never seen tix or most of the x abbreviations mentioned here before and wouldn’t automatically link tix to tickets.

Is it a tictok/instagram thing?

Well it is beyond comprehension. If I was going to shorten passenger I would do pgr not pax far more logical

Tbf @ASighMadeOfStone said "clearly understood by anyone who needs to", ergo someone who works in relevant industries and uses these abbreviations every day in professional documentation.

You clearly don't, so don't need to understand them.

But that would be beyond comprehension...I'd read that as pager.

Pax has been in use for decades and it is quite common to use X as an abbreviation ...so it's just one of those quirks of language

@llamajohn@MonsteraMama

I consider myself thick and well and truly told off

@Purplebunnie pgr is not more logical 😂 I’d read that as pager too

Who are all these people getting so worked up about which abbreviations other people
use 🤣

Airlines use pax
Doctors use dx

I had a text saying tix sent to me in 2004 so not originally no.

There is a board specifically for people like us. Head over to Pedants Corner. 👍

I've had to learn morse code to read some threads and sometimes I still don't understand what they say.
Have to go through the comments to figure it out.
One of the worst is my Dxp
I mean he's an ex not a dear or darling ex he's just an ex.
Same goes for the rest of the code's.
Mil dmil DD dsd ds dsil and so on just type the words its no hard.

See this is what I don't get about Mumsnet sometimes. There's a forum to ask if you're unreasonable about something. And some of the replies are very often nasty and unreasonable in themselves and out of proportion to the original question, make assumptions (like this one) and give people an opportunity to be spiteful and gang up about something innocuous.

I worked in aviation and PAX is used to save space on the system including the short messaging system within the aircraft that pilots use to communicate with the ground. Absolutely zero to do with laziness!!

Paul McCartneys Dad told him he loved the song, but couldn't he sing "She loves you, yes, yes, yes" as he hated "Yeah"!

Language evolves. Why let it bother you?

I understand that it's an abbreviation but it's not one I use myself (yet).

Tix is a Norwegian musician.