Words, not acronyms.

[MissAW]

Am I being unreasonable to expect people to write actual words rather than acronyms? I honestly read some posts that are so littered with acronyms that I can't understand what point is being made. Use your words, people.

They are mostly not acronyms, or abbreviations, but initialisms. Although I do pronounce AIBU as eye-boo.

Why are you frying fish? What's this thread got to do with cooking? Can't you just say what you want to say? Use your words comprehensively

Touché!

Or is that too French?

TBF acronyms are when the first letters are used but then pronounced as a word. For example FOMO (Fear of Misding Out) people say FoMo not F.O.M.O, or PIN (Personal Identification Number) people say PIN number.

whereas RSPCA, you say each individual letter, so that’s not an acronym. I’d say DH is the same. They are initialisms.

Turns out I'm wrong. I googled. Acronyms are a form of abbreviation. And most of the ones on here are, as a pp said, initialisms, not acronyms.

No.

If anyone called their husband a “Dee aitch” out loud in real life, I dread to think how quickly I’d have to run away.

No that is insane?

Do you object to initialisms and shortenings everywhere? Or only on Mumsnet ?

BBC ?
NHS ?
MOT ?
GP?
Dr ?
etc ?
Mr ?
UK ?

If it was “my dear GP” as “went to my DGP today about my bad back”, then yes. I would. Thankfully it isn’t.

So MN isnt the place for you. Why do you imagine we are all going to stop using shorthand just to suit you because you cant be bothered to learn the lingo.
YABVU HTH. And if you are this sort of lazy in other ways in your life you might even be a CF!

PIN number is the classic example of RAS syndrome - redundant acronym syndrome syndrome.
Like saying ATM machine.
MOT test on the other hand is correct.
HTH.

Yes I did think that as I typed PIN number 😆