Awfully Peculiar Racket - Ordinary Names Yield Meanings, Surprisingly!
Angela has not had time to update this website recently, because she is also a mathematician by training, programmer by trade, physicist by association and writer by Sunday midnight. She would like to remind people that anyone who submits an acronym to this website may send a short blurb like this one to go on their page of acronyms.
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| ESTIMATION | Experience Sole Teacher In Murky Art, There Is Often None. |
Angela Brett, after somebody at work said that estimation is a black art and the only way you can get better at it is with experience. Assorted Nouns |
| ETHNICITY | Even Though Human Nature's In Common, Ideologies Throw You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Nationalities & Races |
| EUCLID | 'E's Unclear... Can Lines Intersect Dually? |
Angela Brett, because Euclid's first postulate saying that a straight line can be drawn from any point to any point does not explicitly say that the line is unique. Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| EUREKA! | Epiphanic Understanding Reached - Exclaim Knowledge Aloud! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| EUTOCIUS | Essentially Updated The Others' Calculations - Inscribed Unoriginal Summaries. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| EVOLUTION | Every Viable Organism Lives Under The Influence Of Nature |
Angela Brett, who isn't sure just how much sense this one makes but it flows well. Science:Biology |
| EXPENSE MANAGEMENT | Every Xebec Put Elsewhere Needs Some Explicit Meaning And Necessity. Accountants Gain Extra Money Eliminating Needless Tarriffs. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| EYE | Espy Your Enemies |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| FABRIC (2) | For A Breakfast Reduced In Calories |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Threads & Fabric:Edible(?) |
| FABRIC (3) | For A Breakfast Rich In Cotton |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Threads & Fabric:Edible(?) |
| FACE | Focus Additional Cosmetic Enhancement |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| FACT | Funny Acronym-Connected Trivia |
Angela Brett, to use as one of the headings on the ACRONYMS front page until someone thinks of something better. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| FACTS (2) | Fundamentals Are Conveyed Too Slowly |
Angela Brett Education:Slow Teaching |
| FAGGOT | Fellows Are Gay? Good On Them! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| FAGS | Formerly A-Grade Smokes |
Angela Brett Drugs:Tobacco |
| FAILURE (3) | Funds Are Inadequate, Loads Under Running Expenses. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| FAINT | Feel(s) As If Not There |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| FAKE (2) | Fraud Artists Kid Everyone |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FAKE (3) | Fools Are Knowingly Ensnared |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FAKES | Fool And Kwanza Easily Separated |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FALCON | Fords Are Like Cars, Only Nicer |
Angela Brett, who actually has no opinion on which car makes are better. Transport:Car Makes & Models |
| FALL | Frightened About Looming Landing |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs Sports & Recreation:Parachuting |
| FALLING | Forget About Lost Luggage - Incompetence's Now Grave! |
Angela Brett, referring to a falling aircraft and the presumed incompetence of whoever's flying it, compared with that of the luggage clerk who sent your luggage to Murmansk. Transport |
| FAMILY | Father And Mother, I Love You. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Family |
| FAMOUS | Flaunting Ample Money, Often Under Scandal |
Angela Brett Names:Famous people |
| FART | Free Air & Release Tension |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| FASHION (4) | Forceful Advertising Seeds Homogeny, Imposing Others' Norms |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Household Objects:Clothing |
| FASHION (5) | Forces A Spectrum, High Individuality Or Not |
Angela Brett -- it seems to be fashionable to be original and different, but only within certain limits. People & Relationships Household Objects:Clothing |
| FASHION MARKETING | Find A 'Statement', Hang It On Nonchalant Model, And Rich Kids (Exposing Their Insecurities) 'Need' Garment. |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing Commerce |
| FASHIONS | Foster Adolescent Self-Hate If Outfit's Not Stylish |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| FASHIONS (2) | Fools Are Spending Hundreds; It's Old Next Season |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing Commerce |
| FASTPHONE | Funds Are Speedily Transferred, Particularly Handy On Near-Empty. |
Angela Brett, who often uses her bank's Fastphone service to transfer funds from her savings account to her EFTPOS one. Commerce Communication |
| FAST TRACK | For A Shorter Transport Time, Railways Are Car Killers! |
Angela Brett Transport:Trains |
| FATAL | Forwards Abruptly To After-Life |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| FAT FREE | Forget Adding Tax For Rightful Extra Energy! |
Angela Brett, thinking that 'fat free' signs could be advertising that you don't have to pay for the fat - although in reality food with such a sign cost more and have less fat in them, which seems like a RIP-OFF Food & Drink |
| FEAR (2) | Frightened? Expect Adrenalin Rush |
Angela Brett Science:Biology People & Relationships:Emotions |
| FEAR (3) | Faithful Entreat A Rescue |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions |
| FEMALE | For Ever Moaning About Littlest Errors |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| FEMALES | For-Ever Making A Lover Exasperatedly Sigh |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| FEMALES (2) | Flimsy Entities Males Attain Lewdly Enforcing Sexuality |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| FEMALES (3) | For Entertainment, Many Are Laying Evil Scheme(r)s |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| FERMAT | Famous Equation Really Made Andrew Think! |
Angela Brett (Andrew Wiles eventually proved Fermat's Last Theorem centuries after Fermat's death.) Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| FERRY TICKET | Forget Enduring Road Rage - You'll Travel In Comfort, Knowing Entrance Time. |
Angela Brett Transport |
| FERTILITY | Fairly Easy Reproduction, Though Initiating Life Is Terrific Yield |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| FIELD DAY | Father Is Endorsing Letter - Don't Do Anything Yucky! |
Angela Brett, thinking about permission slips for school outings. Education Time:Special Occasions |
| FIFTY (2) | Folds In Face Triple Yearly :) |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FIFTY (3) | Frequently I'm Forgetting Things Yesterday! |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FILE | For Indicating Length - EOF. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| FINANCIAL | Father, I Need A New Coat... I'd Appreciate Loan. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Money |
| FINE | Fromage Is Naturally Exquisite |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| FINED | For Infraction, Ninety-Eight Dollars |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FINISHED | Finally I've Nailed It, Software Has Earned Downloads |
Angela Brett, when she had at last got the Apronyms app for Mac OS X ready for release. Computers:Programming |
| FIRE | Flaming Inferno Radiating Energy |
Angela Brett, demonstrating what a true acroholic would say if someone yelled 'FIRE!' in the middle of the night. Science:Physics |
| FIRE (2) | For Incinerating Rubbish, Etc. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| FIRE (3) | Fuel Is Rapidly Exhausted |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| FIRE ALARM | Falsely Indicates Required Evacuation, And Largely Annoys Regular Moviegoers |
Angela Brett, after being evacuated from a building (where there also were movie theatres) due to a false fire alarm. Entertainment:Movies |
| FIREWIRE | Fast Information Retrieval, Even Without Inconvenient Restarting Everytime. |
Angela Brett Computers:Generic Hardware |
| FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS | Friggin' Idiots Require Slow Teaching, Yeah? Educators Aren't Right - Some Totally Understand. Don't Emphasise Non-Troublesome Stuff. |
Angela Brett, after going to a first-year computer science lecture and being reminded of how much lecturers treat first-year students like idiots. Education:Slow Teaching |
| FIVE | Five Isn't Very Easy |
Angela Brett, when Dustan said that FIVE would be a difficult acronym to do. Science:Mathematics:Numbers |
| FLAME | From Lighting A Match, Etc. |
Angela Brett, trying a different kind of singer after Tony came up with expansions for several of the musical kind. Science:Physics |
| FLASHER | Fellow Likely Acting Sexual, His Exhibitionism's Ribald! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| FLAT WHITE | Feel Like A Tea With Herbal Infusions? Try Elsewhere! |
Angela Brett, thinking of it as a sign outside a coffee shop. Food & Drink:Drinks |
| FLAT WHITE (2) | Fine Little Apple That Will Have IBook Tykes Enthused. |
Angela Brett, thinking that the latest iBook, which is not curvy and colourful like the old ones, could be called the 'flat white'. Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| FLAWS | Faulty - Like A Windoze System |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns Computers:Windows |
| FLIRT | Future Lover Is Really Trying |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLIRT (2) | Feel Like I'm Romantic Topgun |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FLIRTING | Feel Like I'm Ready To Investigate New Guys/Girls |
Angela Brett, while pondering the difference between flirting and ordinary conversation. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Communication |
| FLORAL | Flaunting Likenesses Of Rhododendrons And Lilies |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| FLOWER | Fellow's Love Of Woman Expressed Romantically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust Science:Biology:Plants |
| FOCUS | For Orbits, Centre's Usually Star |
Angela Brett Science:Astronomy |
| FOCUS GROUP | Feed Our Customers Under Scrutiny, Gauging Reactions On Unfamiliar Products. |
Angela Brett Commerce |
| FOOD | Foe Of Obsessed Dieters |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| FOOL (2) | Fell Out Of Love |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| FOR | Father Of Repetition |
Angela Brett, because for is usually the best loop to use in C programs. Computers:Programming |
| FORECAST | Focus On Real Events - Can't Accurately See Tomorrow |
Angela Brett Time |
| FOREMAN OF THE JURY | Finished Off Reviewing Evidence, My Announcement Notes Our Findings. Trial Has Ended, Judge Usually Rules Years. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Law & Order |
| FOREST | Formation Of Radiata Exist Standing Together |
Angela Brett Places Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| FOREST (2) | Foliage Over Roots Enhances Several Trunks. |
Angela Brett Places Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| FORM | Figure Of Representational Medium |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| FORTRAN (2) | Fine Operations Really Trivialise Replicating Arrays Neatly |
Angela Brett Computers:Programming |
| FORTY | Factor Out Repeated Twenty Years |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FORTY (2) | Friggin' Old - RIP To Youth! |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| FORUM POST | For Others' Reading, Utilise Message Placard On Server, Thanks! |
Angela Brett Communication:Acronyms Forums:Page Titles |
| FORUMS (2) | Floor Open... Rejected Using Moderated System. |
Angela Brett, who decided not to make the Acronyms forums at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/start.cgi?id=acronyms moderated. Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| FO TI | For One's Tea Infusion |
Angela Brett (I assume it's an accident that the name could be pronounced as a non-rhotic 'for tea' but apparently fo ti is used as a tea.) Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| FO TI (2) | Flogged On The Internet |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| FO TI (3) | Finest Of Traditional Infusions |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| FO TI ROOT | Fear Of Technology? Ingest Remedy Of Older Times! |
Angela Brett Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs |
| FRANT | Fellows Restlessly Await Next Train |
Angela Brett (Frant is defined in The Meaning of Liff as meaning, 'The legal minimum distance between two trains on the District and Circle line of the London Underground. A frant, which must be not less than 122 chains (or 8 leagues) long, is not connected in any way with the adjective 'frantic' which comes to us by a completely different route (as indeed do the trains).') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| FREEWARE HYPERCARD STACK | First Reason Everything's Easier With Apples: Reduced Effort Has Your Programmers Expecting Reduced Cost, And Readily Developing Something That All Consider 'Killer' |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software Computers:Programming |
| FRESH BREAD | Following Recipe's Essential - Some Half-Baked Rolls Even Appear Doughy. |
Angela Brett, who was determined to create an acronym with 'Half-Baked,' in it since that is used as an example in Tony's acronymising tips. Food & Drink |
| FRODE | Fiftyish Residents Of Deck Enlivened |
Angela Brett, referring to the character in 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery |
| FROG IN THROAT | False Ribbits One Gets If Needing The Health Resources Otorhinolaryngologists Assent To |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| FROM BEHIND | Frightened Reaction Obviously Must Be Expected - Hindsight Is Not Directional! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady, when somebody searched for 'from behind' on the Acronyms website. Places:Positions & Directions |
| FROSSES | Folks Really Organise Stupid Stuff, Eh Sista? |
Angela Brett (Frosses is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'The lecherous looks exchanged between sixteen-year-olds at a party given by someone's parents') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| FROSSES (2) | Folks Really Organise Such Stupid Events... Seeya! |
Angela Brett (see FROSSES) Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| FRY | Food Ready Yet? |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| FTP | Follow That Puppy! |
Angela Brett - FTP actually stands for File Transfer Protocol, but at least two Macintosh FTP clients have dogs in their icons. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| FUNERAL | Family Uncovers Necropolitan Expenses Reducing All Legacies |
Rico Leffanta and Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| FWIW | Following Writing Is Waffle |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| FWIW (2) | Find Whether I'm Wrong |
Angela Brett (FWIW usually stands for 'For What It's Worth') Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| FYRD | Forced Youth Recruitment Decreed |
Angela Brett Military |
| FYRDS | For Year-Round Defense Services |
Angela Brett Military |
| GAB (2) | Garrulous Annoying Blether |
Angela Brett Communication:Talking |
| GABBLE | Garbage Articulated, 'Blah Blah...' Lacking Eloquence. |
Angela Brett, not long before checking her email and discovering she'd been beaten to first G acronym by Tony's GAB. Communication:Talking |
| GADGET | Got Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics |
| GAM | Green And Mauve |
Angela Brett ('gam' is the collective noun for weasels, and the story which the h2g2 researchers are writing at http://www.h2g2.com/A255007 is plagued with mauve and sometimes green weasels.) Art & Literature |
| GAMBLE | Gain A Million By Losing Empire |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| GAMBLE (2) | Get Additional Money But Lose Everyone |
Angela Brett Entertainment |
| GANTT | Graph Allocating Necessary Tasks & Timescales |
Angela Brett, after a workmate mistakenly referred to a Gantt chart as a 'GANT'. The Gantt chart is named after Charles Gantt, and is not an acronym. Time |
| GANTT (2) | Generally Always Need Triple Time |
Angela Brett (see GANTT) Time |
| GANTT (3) | Guesstimates Almost Never The Truth |
Angela Brett Time |
| GANTT (5) | Generous Approximations, No Tiny Target |
Angela Brett Time |
| GANTT (6) | Generating Appropriate Notation Takes Time |
Angela Brett Time |
| GARDEN OF EDEN | Gobbling Apple Revealed Dear Eve's Nakedness... One Figleaf Enhanced Decency Enough? No! |
Angela Brett Places Religion |
| GARFIELD (2) | Gets Around Really Fast If Espying Lasagne Dish |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Fictional Characters Names:Pet Names |
| GARRETT | Gaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There |
Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch') Names:First names:Male |
| GASBAG | Groan... Another Speech By Al Gore. |
Angela Brett Politics |
| GATANISM (2) | Gleaning Apple's Trade, And Nerdishly Idolising Satanic Master |
Angela Brett Computers:Windows |
| GATE | Grants Access To Everyone |
Angela Brett Places |
| GAUSS | Got Answers Using Simultaneous Solutions |
Angela Brett, thinking of Gaussian elimination, a way of solving simultaneous equations. I didn't feel like acronymising the whole thing! Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| GAUSS (2) | Great Arithmetic Used Solving Systems |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| GAUSS (3) | Geometry's An Unexpectedly Strange Subject. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians |
| GAYS | Genes Alter Your Sexuality? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| GAYS (2) | Gender Aside, You're Sexy! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEK (2) | Greatly Enjoys Enhancing Kernels |
Angela Brett and Steve Keate Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKS (3) | God's Electronic - Every Kilobyte's Sacred |
Angela Brett Computers Religion People & Relationships |
| GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY (2) | Generally Everything Elicits Keyboard Yearnings |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY (3) | Gigabit/ Exabit Ethernet Kindling Yottabytes |
Angela Brett Computers |
| GEEKY ACRONYMS (2) | Gotos Evil, Everybody Knows. You Always Can Rely On (Names You've Mangled) Subroutines |
Angela Brett, thinking of abbreviated function names. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms Computers:Programming |
| GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC Assorted Adjectives |
| GENETIC ALGORITHM | Guesser Employing Nature's Evolutionary 'Tactics' In Creating A Likely Group Of Resolutions. Increase That Heuristic Measurement! |
Angela Brett Science Computers:Programming |
| GENETIC ENGINEERING | Godlike Experimenters Now Ensure That It Couldn't Evolve Naturally, Given Its Not Especially Effective Reproduction Inhibiting New Generations. |
Angela Brett, as genetically engineered plants are sometimes made sterile in order to prevent the crops from spreading and/or increase profits for the companies which sell the seeds. This also ensures that the variety could never have evolved naturally, since anything which can't reproduce is a sitting duck (so to speak) for natural selection. Science:Biology |
| GEOMETRY | Golly, Elementary Orthogonal Matrices Excite These Randy Youths. |
Angela Brett, during a boring first-year algebra lecture. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Education:Slow Teaching |
| GEOMETRY (2) | Go Euclid! One Man's Elementary Text Remained Years! |
Angela Brett (parts of Euclid's 'Elements' were used as a standard textbook for around 2250 years.) Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| GEOMETRY (3) | Greek Earth Observers Measured Everything, Trusting Real Yardsticks. |
Angela Brett, since geometry began with people actually measuring land and wasn't at all like the abstract science it is today. Science:Mathematics:Geometry |
| GET BENT | Get Exercise - Tae Bo Extinguishes Nervous Tension. |
Angela Brett Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans |
| GET DRUNK | Gulp Ethanol To Dull Responses, Uncountable Neurons Killed. |
Angela Brett Drugs |
| GET UP AND GO | Great Energy That Urges People Along... Now Don't Go Overboard! |
Angela Brett Assorted Phrases |
| GFOUR | Gigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| GHOST (2) | Grief Has One Seeing Things |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| GHOULS | Give Hundreds Of Undead Life, Symbolically |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| GIFT | Given In Friendly Transaction |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| GIGABYTES | Gosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. |
Angela Brett Computers |
| GIGGLE | Greatly Inspired Gleeful Guffaw... Laughing Ebulliantly |
Angela Brett Laughter |
| GIRLS DON'T LIKE BOYS, GIRLS LIKE CARS AND MONEY. | Get It Right, Lads! She Doesn't Only Need True Love (I Know Everyone Believes Only Your Soul's Goodness Is Really Likeable) She Likes Incredible Kit, Excess Capital And Racing Spoilers. All Now Demand Men Owe Nothing Except Yabber. |
Angela Brett, who disagrees with this lyric from 'Boys and Girls' by Good Charlotte. People & Relationships:Love & Lust Transport Commerce:Money |
| GIVE | Gift Is Vicariously Enjoyed |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
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