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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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| DYSPHASIA | Disturbs Your Speech Patterns - Has A Significant Impact, Apparently. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| DYSTOCIA | Delivering Your Sprog Takes Obstetric Care In Abundance |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| DZO | Domestic Zoological Oddity |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| EAGER | Every Attempt Gets Enthusiasm Renewed |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| EARACHE | Expensive Affair Requiring A Consultation - How Exasperating! |
Angela Brett, when she had to go to a doctor to get a prescription for her recurring ear infection. Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| EARLOBE | Embellishments And Rings Lend One Beauty, Essentially. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| ECHOLALIA | Every Child Hears Obscure Language And Lips It Again |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| EDNA | Every Date's New Acquaintance |
Angela Brett, remembering when Sideshow Bob on the Simpsons said 'You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel' Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| EDUCATIONAL | Everybody Does University Classes And Then It's Onto Nerdy Academic Lives. |
Angela Brett Education |
| EFFIGIES | 'Evil' Figures Flamed In Grotesque Intensely Execrative Shows |
Angela Brett People & Relationships |
| EGG | Elegant Gender's Gamete |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| EIGENVECTOR | Excess Instructions Generate Exhausting, Not-Very-Exciting Classes. Tedium Often Results. |
Angela Brett, while sitting through a lecture about eigenvalues and eigenvectors (a topic which everyone in the class had learnt about at least once) which was being taught agonisingly slowly. Science:Mathematics Education:Slow Teaching |
| EKANS | Enthusiasts Keep A Nintendo Snake |
Angela Brett (Ekans is Pokemon #23) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| ELASMOSAURUS | Extreme Length And Size Made One Swimmer An Unusual Reptile Under Sea |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs |
| ELECTION | Endure Late-Evening Commentary Tallying Ideologies Of Nation. |
Angela Brett Politics |
| ELECTRON | Even Little Electric Currents Take Ridiculously Oversized Numbers |
Angela Brett Science:Electronics Science:Physics:Particles |
| ELIA | Eloquent Lamb Is Anonymous |
Angela Brett Art & Literature:Writers |
| ELIZABETH | Evidently Linux Is Zenithal - All Boxes Exhibit Technical Homeostasis. |
Angela Brett, referring to her sister, who likes Linux. Names:First names:Female |
| EMERALD | Enduring Marriage Exhibiting Reliable And Lasting Devotion |
Angela Brett, referring to what is traditionally the emerald (55th) wedding anniversary. Time:Special Occasions:Wedding Anniversaries |
| EMERSON | Enjoy Massachusetts Education Regarding Science Of Notification |
Angela Brett (according to http://www.emerson.edu/ Emerson College is the USA's only four-year college devoted exclusively to the study of communication and performing arts) Education Communication |
| EMMY | Excellence Makes Me Yours |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| EMPATHY | Every Man - Perceive Another's Thoughts. Hear Yourself? |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| EMPLOYEE | Expecting Much Pay Leaves One Youth Especially Energized! |
Angela Brett, soon after finding out she'd got a job with SOEIDENTAL People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations |
| ENCRYPTION | Each New Code Requires Your Powers To Interpret Others' Notes. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics Computers |
| ENDING | Every Near-Death Indicates New Genesis |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| ENGLISH | Eccentricities Numerous... Grammar Learning Is Superlatively Hard. |
Angela Brett Science:Linguistics |
| ESAC | End Statement After 'Case' |
Angela Brett -- in a bash script, to end a case block you use 'esac', to end an 'if' you use 'fi' and to end a 'do' you use... 'done'. Nobody ever called bash intuitive. ;^) Computers:Programming |
| ESPN | Eighty Seminole Points - Nil. |
Angela Brett, in response to this request on the Apronyms Forums: We have a game coming up with our rival school, the Florida Gators. We are the Florida State Seminoles. and we want an Acronym for ESPN with something clever about us winning. If anyone could help that would be great. Sports & Recreation:Florida State Seminoles |
| ESS-OH-ESS | Encoded Scream Starts Off Harbourmaster's/Hero's Emergency Safety Strategy |
Angela Brett (see DOTDOTDOTDASHDASHDASHDOTDOTDOT) People & Relationships:Disaster |
| 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 |
| EYE | Espy Your Enemies |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| 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 |
| FAGGOT | Fellows Are Gay? Good On Them! |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| FAGS | Formerly A-Grade Smokes |
Angela Brett Drugs:Tobacco |
| FAINT | Feel(s) As If Not There |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments |
| 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 |
| FASHIONS | Foster Adolescent Self-Hate If Outfit's Not Stylish |
Angela Brett Household Objects:Clothing |
| 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 |
| FATAL | Forwards Abruptly To After-Life |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Death |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| FERTILITY | Fairly Easy Reproduction, Though Initiating Life Is Terrific Yield |
Angela Brett Science:Biology |
| 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 |
| FIREWIRE | Fast Information Retrieval, Even Without Inconvenient Restarting Everytime. |
Angela Brett Computers:Generic Hardware |
| 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 |
| FLAWS | Faulty - Like A Windoze System |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns Computers:Windows |
| FLIRT | Future Lover Is Really Trying |
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 |
| FOOD | Foe Of Obsessed Dieters |
Angela Brett Food & Drink |
| 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 |
| FOREST | Formation Of Radiata Exist Standing Together |
Angela Brett Places Science:Biology:Plants:Trees |
| FORM | Figure Of Representational Medium |
Angela Brett Art & Literature |
| FORTY | Factor Out Repeated Twenty Years |
Angela Brett Time:Age |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| FYRD | Forced Youth Recruitment Decreed |
Angela Brett Military |
| FYRDS | For Year-Round Defense Services |
Angela Brett Military |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| GAYS | Genes Alter Your Sexuality? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA |
| GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett Computers People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GENERIC | Generalised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. |
Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC Assorted Adjectives |
| GEOMETRY | Golly, Elementary Orthogonal Matrices Excite These Randy Youths. |
Angela Brett, during a boring first-year algebra lecture. Science:Mathematics:Geometry Education:Slow Teaching |
| GFOUR | Gigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! |
Angela Brett Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware |
| 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 |
| GIVE | Gift Is Vicariously Enjoyed |
Angela Brett Assorted Verbs |
| GLASSEL | Good-Looking At Sea Side, Elsewhere Lacklustre. |
Angela Brett ('Glassel' is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A seaside pebble which was shiny and interesting when wet, and which is now a lump of rock, which children nevertheless insist on filing their suitcases with after the holiday. Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| GLASSES | Good-Looking Angela Sees Smallprint Extra Sharply. |
Angela Brett, who has perfect close-up sight. Household Objects:Clothing:Jewellery & Accessories |
| GLITCH | Good Lord! Imperfect Timing Causes Havoc! |
Angela Brett, after hearing about how delays in electricity flowing through logic gates can cause glitches in electronic circuits. Science:Electronics |
| GOAT | Gnaws On Any Thing! |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Animals |
| GOD | Great Omniscient Deity |
Angela Brett Religion |
| GODS | Generous Omni Developers Share |
Angela Brett, because the Omni Group (http://omnigroup.com) makes some excellent products for Mac OS X, including frameworks for other Cocoa developers to use. Some might regard the Omni folk as GODS. Computers:Programming:Cocoa |
| GOLGI | Good Old Lipoproteins Get Instructed |
Angela Brett, after someone told her that a golgi apparatus is a 'structure where proteins go to college.' Science:Biology Education |
| GONAD | Generates Ova Night And Day |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| GOOD | Greatly Overused, Ordinary Declaration. |
Angela Brett Assorted Adjectives |
| GOWN | Graduate's Otherwise Wearing Nothing |
Angela Brett, a few weeks before graduating - there are bound to be pranksters who wear nothing under the gown. Household Objects:Clothing:Academic Regalia |
| GRADUATION | Get Ready Academics... Depart University And Turn Into Overpaid Novices |
Angela Brett Education Time:Special Occasions |
| GRAVE | Grievers Remember A Vanished Embodyment |
Angela Brett Places People & Relationships:Death |
| GRAVES | God Requests A Visit, Eternal Souls. |
Angela Brett Places People & Relationships:Death |
| GRIEVOUS | Grave Robber Is Extolling Virtues Of Using Shovel |
Angela Brett (grave robbing is rather a grievous thing to do.) People & Relationships:Death |
| GUICIDE | Graphical User Interface Crashed... Instant Disaster Ensued! |
Angela Brett, pondering whether deinstalling a GUI (Graphical User Interface) would be committing 'guicide' Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words Computers |
| GWEN | Good Welsh Effeminate Name |
Angela Brett (Gwendolyn is a Welsh name meaning fair haired) Names:First names:Female |
| GYARADOS | 'Goldfish' Yields A Rare Atrocious Dragon Of Size |
Angela Brett (Gyarados is Pokemon #130) Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon |
| GYMNASTICS | Girls & Young Men Now Attempt Stretches That Impossibly Curve Spine |
Angela Brett Sports & Recreation |
| GYROSCOPIC | Get Yours! Rotates Omnidirectionally So Centre Of Positition Is Constant. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| GYROSTABILIZER | God! You're Rolling Over! Stop That! Aircraft Begins Inclining, Luckily Implement Zeroes Endangering Rotation. |
Angela Brett Science:Physics |
| GYVE | Got You! Villain's Entrapped. |
Angela Brett Assorted Nouns |
| HAHA | Harder Acronyms Hamper Angela |
Angela Brett, when it took her a while to respond to a challenge to acronymise haha, after she'd said she couldn't resist acronymising capitalised words. Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms |
| HAL | He's Artificial Lunacy |
Angela Brett, referring to the computer in '2001: A Space Odyssey' Art & Literature:Fictional Characters |
| HALLOWEEN | Houselights And Lanterns Light One's Way Entreating Each Neighbour. |
Angela Brett Time:Special Occasions |
| HAMPERS | Hinder[s] Angela's MP3 Player's Expected Reception Speed |
Angela Brett, several days after her IPOD was supposed to arrive, on finding out that due to an influx of CHRISTMAS HAMPERS some smaller packages are getting lost. Communication Time:Special Occasions:Christmas |
| HAND | Hard Acronym Not Done |
Angela Brett, when Steve was trying to think of a HAND acronym and then asked her for an expansion when he couldn't think of one. Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HANDYMAN | Husband's Apparently Now Doing Yearly Maintenance Around Nest. |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:The Workforce:Occupations People & Relationships:Genderalisations |
| HANNAH | Here's A Nice Name - And How! |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady Names:First names:Female |
| HANS | Has A Nutty Scalp |
Angela Brett, referring to HANS MOLEMAN - HOMER once kissed him on the head and exclaimed, 'It's just like kissing a peanut!' Entertainment:TV shows:The Simpsons |
| HARM | Humans Are Really Mean |
Angela Brett People & Relationships Military:War & Terrorism |
| HASSOP | Here Armchair Stores Sterling Or Plastic |
Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady (Hassop is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The pocket down the back of an armchair used for storing two-shilling bits and pieces of Lego.' Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| HASTINGS | Hardly Anything Suspicious - The... Icing Needed Glazing, See? |
Angela Brett (Hastings is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as meaning, 'Things said on the spur of the moment to explain to someone who comes into a room unexpectedly precisely what it is you are doing.') Words & Wordplay:Liffs |
| HATE | Humans Attack Their Enemies |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism |
| HATING | Humans Attack Those Idolising Neighbouring Gods |
Angela Brett Religion People & Relationships:Emotions Military:War & Terrorism |
| HEAD | Hat/Hair Envelops Axons & Dendrites |
Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEAL | Helpful Education About Life/Love |
Angela Brett, in response to the same request as WATCH OUT People & Relationships:Abuse |
| HEART | Hopefully Evident Arrhythmias Repair Themselves. |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Body Parts |
| HEAVEN | Highly Ecclesiastical Angelic Vista - Eternal Nirvana |
Angela Brett (the Angelic one ;^) Places Religion |
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