Thread: Quilting Acronyms

Sometimes I've noticed people use acronyms so much, they don't realized not everyone is sure of the meaning... I found this website... Hope it helps if, like me, you can be acronym-challenged. http://quiltinggallery.com/2009/04/2...ters-acronyms/

I agree about the overuse. While trying to figure what each acronym stands for sometimes lose interest in what is being posted.

I agree with the overuse. Sometimes for me, it would be easier to just type out the words. They can be so confusing.

Thanks Claire and Paper Princess - I know most of them but every so often see one that I have no idea what it means. These are handy lists to have for reference!

Heavy use of acronyms or initialisms (strictly speaking, an acronym is a combination of letters pronounced as a word [NATO] and the letters of an initialism are read individually [FMQ - just try to pronounce that as a word]) can be intimidating or alienating to a newbie. One useful technique to avoid this, particularly when the abbreviation is going to be used repeatedly, is spell it out the first time, with the abbreviated form in parenthesis. Subsequent occurrences needn't be spelled out, since the explanation has already been given.

Originally Posted by Manalto

One useful technique to avoid this, particularly when the abbreviation is going to be used repeatedly, is spell it out the first time, with the abbreviated form in parenthesis. Subsequent occurrences needn't be spelled out, since the explanation has already been given.

This is actually correct form for all writing!
former language arts teacher