APRONYMS BY ANGELA BRETT

About Angela Brett

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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AASLEAGHAwful Alcohol's Still Left, & Everyone's Already Got Hangovers! Angela Brett (Aasleagh is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'A liqueur made only for drinking at the end of a revoltingly long bottle party when all the drinkable drink has been drunk.'
Food & Drink:Drinks:Alcoholic
Words & Wordplay:Liffs
ABACTORAgricultural Baddy - A Cattle Thief (Obsolete Remark) Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order:Criminals
ABASHAstound, Bring About Shame, Humiliate. Angela Brett
Assorted Verbs
ABATTOIRAnimals Bleed And Then They're Offered In Repast Angela Brett
Food & Drink
Places:Buildings
ABBAAgnate Biblically Begat Adam Angela Brett
Religion
ABBREVIATIONSA Bit Big... Remove Excess Vowels (It Ain't Troublesome If One's Not Speaking) Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay
ABBREVIATIONS OF WORDSA Border Between Reading/ Enscribing & Vocalising Is Apparent, Though It's Often Not Seen... Orally Flustering 'WWW' Offers Real Dilemma Sometimes. Angela Brett, who thinks it's silly that people speak 'WWW', which is only an abbreviation in writing, and write things like 'Meg' and 'Gig' which are abbreviations for speaking but longer than the acceptable written abbreviations MB and GB.
Words & Wordplay
ABC (2)Alphabet Backwards' Coda. Angela Brett
Science:Linguistics
ABEIGHAloof, But Especially In Gaelic Highlands Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Personality Traits
ABELAdam's Boy, Eve's Lad Angela Brett
Names:First names:Male
Religion
ABETAid By Encouraging Transgression Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
ABIOGENESISA Biont Is Originated - Great, Except Not Explicable. Surrounding Inanimate Substance. Angela Brett
Science:Biology
ABIOGENESIS (2)A Biont Isn't Often Generated Except Near Existing Sentience - It's Strange. Angela Brett
Science:Biology
ABLACTATIONA Baby's Left Annoyed 'Cause That Alimentary Tipple Isn't On Nipple. Angela Brett
Science:Biology
ABNEGATEAbsolute Baloney - Never Even Given A Thought, Ever. Angela Brett
Assorted Verbs
ABNORMAL DATA TYPEAll Bytes Not On Required Memory Alignment, Long Doubles Are Torn Apart, Then Your Program Explodes/Exits. Angela Brett, in response to an unsuccessful search. (An alternative ending is 'Then Your Program's Executed' where Executed has a double meaning.)
Computers:Programming
ABORTIONA Baby Only Remains 'Til It's Ordered Not Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Family
Science:Biology:Healthcare
ABOUT THE STACKAcronyms Brought Out Unusual Talent, This HyperCard Engine Stored Them Alongside Cumulated Knowledge. Angela Brett, who thought she ought to acronymise the title of the page at http://acronyms.co.nz/about.html since it's in capitals.
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ABRAMA Brownish Red, Auburn Modernly. Angela Brett
Assorted Adjectives:Colours
ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDERA Brief Stint Elsewhere... Now Curiously Everyone Misses And Keeps Enthusiastically Supporting Thee. Hurry Ever Homewards. Every Acquaintance Registers True Grief Remarking On Wanderer's Future. Oh, Nomad Desist Errantry - Return! Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady
Assorted Phrases:Sayings
ABUNDANTAll But Uncountable... Never Did Anyone Need Total Angela Brett
Assorted Adjectives
ACARIDA Compact Arachnid - Rarely Isn't Dronish. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Insects
ACATALECTICAuthors Can Achieve This - A Little Extra Care That It's Correct. Angela Brett
Art & Literature
ACATAMATHESIAAfflicted Can't Apprehend That Anything Means Anything, Though Has Every Sense - It's Absurd! Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
ACEROUSA Careful Extraction Revokes Only Unicorn's Significance Angela Brett
Science:Biology
Art & Literature:Myths & Legends:Mythical Creatures
ACIDA Corrosive Ingredient, Definitely. Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry
ACNEAdolescents Can Not Escape Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
People & Relationships:Beauty & Hygiene
ACQUISITION SOFTWAREAnyone Can Quickly Understand Its Significance... It Trawls Information On Networks Searching Only For The Worthwhile And Relevant Essays Angela Brett
Computers
ACRONYM (7)A Condensed Representation Outlining Neatly Your Meaning Angela Brett and Tony McCoy O'Grady
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMANIACAlphabetically Creative Ranter's Overactive Noodle Yields Many Acronymic Niceties. It's Absolutely Crazy! Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMISEAnyone Can Rejuvenate Old Nuances. You Must Investigate Synonyms Extensively. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMISING TIPSAcronym Creators - Read Our Notes. Your Mentor Is Superlative, Inspiring Nym-Generator... Tony Imparts Precious Suggestions Angela Brett, referring to the Acronymising Tips page at http://acronyms.co.nz/tips.html
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYMIST ALL OF FAMEAdvice: Click Rodent On Names, You May Instantly See Their Acronyms' Links Listed. On Further For Any Mentioned Expansion. Angela Brett, referring to the list of all acronym contributors (called the 'Acronymist All of Fame') at http://acronyms.co.nz/allcontributors.html
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYMIST HONOURS LISTAwards Concerning Record Ordering, Numbers, Years (Millennium's Initial 'Spansion's There) Here Our Niche Of Unparalleled 'Riters Shines - Literature Is Superlatively Terrific! Angela Brett, referring to the Acronymist Honours List at http://acronyms.co.nz/honours.html
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYM MACHINEAngela's Cerebum Routinely Outputs New (Yes, Maybe Magnificent) Acronyms. Creative Helper Is Not Electronic! Angela Brett, when she tried to expand YOU DON'T WANT TO PANIC and ended up with YOU DON'T WANT TO DRINK THAT, and said that the acronym machine was malfunctioning. You can see pictures of the acronym machine at http://acronyms.co.nz/brain
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (3)All Clever Rephrasings Of Notions, You Might Say. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (5)A Causal Relationship Over Nonsensical Yabbering? Maybe So! Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (7)Angela Can Reject Obvious Nonsense... You Make Sense! Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (13)Any Contributors Really Ought Never Yell, 'Me Sane!' Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (14)Absolutely Cuckoo -- Requirement Of Next Year's Morpheme-Splitters. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (15)Alphabetically Challenged? Ready Or Not, You're Making Some. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (16)Alphabet Casserole Rounds Off Nicely Your Metaphorical Supper. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYMS (18)Any Casual Remark Or Name You May Shorten Angela Brett - this describes acronyms in general, but this stack/website is not about just any phrase you turn into an acronym... the acronym comes first, and then you think up an expansion to go with it.
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ACRONYM SEARCH FORMA Casual Reader Of Netborne Yarns Might Seek Expansions About Relatives... Creativity's Habit-Forming, One Reads More. Angela Brett, who thought she outhg to acronymise the title of the acronym search page at http://acronyms.co.nz/search.html since it's in capitals.
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYM SEARCH RESULTAfter Conveying Request Over Network, You Might See Expansions And Related Categories. However, Really Eccentric Searches Usually Lack Them. Angela Brett, when the acronym search result for 'acronym search result' was lacking.
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYMS SO FARA Count Revealing Our Novel Yield... Measurement Shows Signs Our Futile Activity's Rampant! Angela Brett, who thought she ought to acronymise the heading at http://acronyms.co.nz/index.html since it was in capitals.
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACRONYMS TO USE IN CHAT ROOMSA Casual Remark On Net You Must Shorten... They're Often Untrue Statements, Exaggerated - IRCers Not Chuckling Heartily, Although Typing 'ROFL' Or Other Meaningless Sequence. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
Computers:Internet
ACRONYM TOURSAre Considered Really Obsolete... Now You'll Migrate To Our (Updated Regularly) Subcategories Angela Brett, because the Acronym Tours at http://acronyms.co.nz/tours haven't been updated for ages, because the CATEGORY LISTINGs at http://acronyms.co.nz/catindex.html are a better way of finding list of acronyms on particular topics. They're update
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ACROSTICArgue Correct Reference, Or Study This Interesting Comparison. Angela Brett, who is thinking of adding to the ACRONYMS website with a discussion of the definitions of acronym and acrostic.
Words & Wordplay
ADAMSAppleMaster Douglas Authored Muchloved Series Angela Brett
Art & Literature:Writers
ADAMS (2)Author Douglas Also Makes Software. Angela Brett
Art & Literature:Writers
ADAMS (3)Aarrghh! Dead, Already! Missed Sadly. Angela Brett, when DOUGLAS ADAMS died of a heart attack at 49.
Art & Literature:Writers
ADDICT (3)Another Dopehead Does It Cold Turkey Angela Brett
Drugs
ADDICTIONAlcohol & Drugs Dangerously Injure Cerebellum. Throw It Out, Now! Angela Brett
Drugs
ADDITIONArithmetic Device Drummed Into Tots... It's Only Natural. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics
ADELARDAl'Khwarizmi's Derivations Entered Latin, Also Royal Drilled. Angela Brett (Adelard of Bath was a mathematician who, among other things, translated work of Euclid and Al'Khwarizmi and taught King Henry II.)
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
ADVENTUREA Dastardly Villain Enters Niceguy Territory - Usually Really Exciting! Angela Brett, while pondering the ADVENTUREs of MacGirl and KEYBOARD.
MacGirl & KeyBoard
AFFCOTA Frightful Fart Cuts Off Talking. Angela Brett (Affcot is defined in 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd as being, 'The sort of fart you hope people will talk after.')
Words & Wordplay:Liffs
AFRAIDAnxious For Reassurance, And In Distress Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Emotions
AFRAID (2)Anxious For Reassurance About Imminent Danger Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Emotions
AGAINST THE GRAINAll Genetic Alterations In Natural Seeds Taint The Horticultural Environment. God's Rapeseeds Adequately Impart Nourishment. Angela Brett, considering a possible name for an anti-GE organisation.
Science:Biology
Politics
Science:Environment
AGEAnnually Gets Elevated Angela Brett
Time:Age
AGESAeons, Generations, Epochs & Such? Angela Brett, after Edwin mentioned on the forums that he hadn't submitted an acronym for AGES and should be punished. I figured I'd better submit an acronym for AGES before anyone punished me!
Time
AGNOSTICA God's Not Observable, So Truth Isn't Certain Angela Brett
Religion
AHAAaah, He's Admitted! Angela Brett, when Tony finally admitted to being the mysterious acronymaniac known as TRICKERTREAT.
Communication:Acronyms Forums:Mystery Posters
AHMED IBN YUSUFArab-Hatched Mathematician, Expanded & Discussed Important Book. Nodoubt, Yusuf's Usual Studies Used Fractions. Angela Brett (Ahmed ibn Yusuf wrote on ratio and proportion, and expanded on/discussed book 5 of Euclid's 'Elements')
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
AIR (3)Animals Inhale Regularly Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry
Science:Biology
AIR (4)Aids In Respiration Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry
Science:Biology
A IS FOR APPLEAnother Instructive Sentence Forming Opinions Regarding Alphabetic Pedagogy... Please Learn Earnestly. Angela Brett
Assorted Phrases
ALAN GUTHAttended Lecture About 'Negative' Gravity -- Universe Triggered How? Angela Brett, after attending Guth's colloquium 'From Special Relativity to Cosmic Inflation' -- for more information, or to download the video, visit http://agenda.cern.ch/fullAgenda.php?ida=a054002
Names:Famous people
Science:Physics
ALAN GUTH (2)Astrophysicists Love A New Grand Unified Theory Hypothesis Angela Brett -- ALAN GUTH may be the expert on rapid expansion in cosmological terms, but an astrophysicist wth the letters GUT in his name is just asking for rapid expansion of a different kind. Perhaps the N word should be changed to 'Nice' or 'Neat' since I'm sure not all GUTs are welcomed, but 'New' flows better.
Names:Famous people
Science:Physics
AL'BATTANIAlbategnius' Liber Bore Astronomical Tables, Trigonometric Advances & Newer Information. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
ALBERT KLAGESAnother Link Between Epochs - Relays Tale Knowing Little About Game's Eventual Signification Angela Brett, referring to the character in 'The Solitaire Mystery' by Jostein Gaarder
Art & Literature:Fictional Characters:The Solitaire Mystery
ALCOHOLIC (2)Apple Lovers Can Only Have One Liquor... It's Cider! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
Drugs
ALFALFA (2)A Little For Appetite, Lots For Anaemia/Autoimmunotoxicity Angela Brett -- Appetite is just one of the many A-words on the all-encompassing lists of what alfalfa might possibly improve. Apparently there is one documented case of alfalfa overdose which resulted in mild anaemia and leucopenia.
Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs
ALGEBRA (2)Abstract Logic Governs Everything - Broad-Ranging Applications. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics
ALGEBRA (5)Abstract Logic Generalises Everything; Beautiful Relationships Appear Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics
AL'HAITAMAnalysed Lenses, Had An Important Theory About Mirrors. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
AL'HASIBAbu Largely Helped Along Solving Irrational Bewilderment. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
A LIFEAcronyms Live In Fame Evermore! Angela Brett, when Patricia asked Tony, 'Do these excellent acronyms just roll off the keyboard or do you not have a life?'
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ALL BOYS ARE GOODAt Last Look, Bad Ones Yes, Still Around. Remember, Every Generalisation Offers One Danger. Angela Brett, expanding an unsuccessful search and thinking of the quote attributed to Alexandre Dumas, "All generalisations are dangerous, even this one."
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
ALLITERATIONSAnother Like Letter Indulges The Ear - Repeat Again To Induce Outrageously Nonsensical Sound. Angela Brett (see the Alliterations page at http://acronyms.co.nz/alliterations.html)
Words & Wordplay
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website:Page Titles
ALONEAlways Left Out - Not Enjoyable. Angela Brett. Tony replied by saying ''Alone' is not always a case of being left out - it can be a case of leaving! You're confiusing being alone with being lonely!' and demonstrating with some more versions of ALONE.
Assorted Adjectives
People & Relationships
ALPHABETAll Literate People Have Already Begun English Training. Angela Brett
Science:Linguistics
ALPHABET (2)A Lexicographic Pattern Hailed As Big Educational Tool Angela Brett
Science:Linguistics
ALTSCAPEAlternative Landscape: Their 'Scenesaver' Creates A Personalised Environment Angela Brett, who is developing the Mac OS X version of Altscape's 'Scenesaver' and Media Manager software. (See http://www.altscape.com/index.asp?displaymode=DownloadsPage)
Commerce:Companies
ALTSCAPE (2)A Lively Team Shall Celebrate As Patronage Expands Angela Brett (see PARTY)
Commerce:Companies
ALTSCAPE (3)A Little Thousand... So? Countless Additional Patrons Expected. Angela Brett (see PARTY) who apologises for the over use of 'Patron' but thinks it was the best word for all the ALTSCAPE-related acronyms which use it.
Commerce:Companies
AMBULANCE (2)'Animal Motor-Bus' Usage Largely Aids Nature-Care Education Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals:The Dorothy Dorosett Brown Mobile Centre
AMBULANCE (3)'Animal Motor-Bus' Usage Leaves All Nature's Critters/Creatures Ensconced Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals:The Dorothy Dorosett Brown Mobile Centre
AMBULANCE (4)'Animal Motor-Bus' Usage Largely Aids Neighbourhood's Creature Empathy Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals:The Dorothy Dorosett Brown Mobile Centre
AMIGAArchaic Machine, It's Gone Away. Steve Keate and Angela Brett
Computers
AMSTERDAMAny Marijuana Smoker That Ever Rolled Dreams About Metropolis Angela Brett
Places:Towns & Cities
AMSTRADAntiquated Machine Starts Trouble... Requires Another Diskdrive. Angela Brett, after a lady in her writing class who'd been using the same Amstrad for 10 years found that it needed a new diskdrive because it hadn't been cleaned.
Computers
ANAGRAMA New Arrangement Giving Reasonably Alike Meaning Angela Brett, describing what people usually aim for when finding anagrams.
Words & Wordplay
AN EMAILA Nice Electronic Message Across Internet Lines Angela Brett, who promised to give Tony an email if he found an ACRONYM for INCENTIVE
Computers:Internet
ANGELA (13)Ain't No Garnish... Entire Lunch Actually! Angela Brett
Names:You Are What You Eat
ANGERAlmost Never Gets Effective Result Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Emotions
ANGIEA Nickname Given Is Endearing Angela Brett
Names:First names:Female
ANIONA Negative Influence On Neighbours Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry
ANISEEDAlways Nice In Sweets, Enjoy Every Dose Angela Brett
Food & Drink:Confectionery
ANTHEMA Nation's Tune Has Everyone Mouthing! Angela Brett, reflecting on the observation than in any sports event or other such occasion where people are required to sing the national anthem, most of the participants don't know all the words, so try their best at moving their mouths so they'll appear to be singing.
Entertainment:Music:Songs
ANTHONYAffluent, Nostalgic Travelling Hippy - Old, Not Youthful. Mary Carr, describing her brother (with a little help from Angela Brett.)
Names:First names:Male
ANTHONY (2)A Name, Therefore, Holds Only Notation, Yes? Angela Brett. (See the ADVENTUREs of MacGirl & KEYBOARD, EPISODE #1)
Names:First names:Male
MacGirl & KeyBoard:(Wannabe) Superheroes
ANTHRAX (3)And Not Two Heads Rolled - All Xaggeration! Angela Brett, when only one person had died of anthrax in the USA but the whole world was paranoid about it.
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
Military:War & Terrorism
ANTHROPOMORPHISMAscribing Nonhumans Typically Human Range Of Properties. One Macintosh Owner Readily Personifies Her IBook - She's Mad! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
Art & Literature
ANTI-Affix Negates The Idea Angela Brett
Science:Linguistics
ANTIBODIESA Natural Thing In Biology... Only Destroy If Enemy's Sensed. Angela Brett
Science:Biology
ANTIBODIES (2)After New Threat's Identified, Bring On Death In Errant Substance Angela Brett
Science:Biology
ANTIBODYAllergy: New Threat's Identified Badly -- Only Death's Yours. Angela Brett, to go with ANTIBODIES (2)
Science:Biology
ANUSArsehole's Not Unusually Smelly Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Body Parts
ANYTHING STARTING WITH AAah, Now You're Trying Hard... It's No Good Searching This, Apronym Retriever's Thinking Is Not Great. Website Index, Though, Has Answer. Angela Brett, after somebody searched the Apronyms website for that phrase. Clicking on the 'Alphabetical' link on the main page will get you to a list of apronyms beginning with A, however... at http://apronyms.com/alphabetic.php?letter=A
Computers:Internet:Apronyms Website
AORTAAimed Outward, Replenishing The Ateries Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Body Parts
APE"Ancestral Primate" -- Evolutionists Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals
APE (2)Are People Evolved? Angela Brett (many people object to the theory of evolution simply because they don't like the thought of being related to apes.)
Science:Biology:Animals
APOSTROPHEA Pointer Of Syncopation, The Rightful Owner(s), Perh... "Hello, Entrant!" Angela Brett, mixing the two meanings of 'apostrophe'.
Science:Linguistics
APPLEA Pleasing Product Line... Excellent! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
APPLE (2)A Pepsi President Lent Expertise Angela Brett (referring to John Sculley)
Computers:Macintosh & Newton
APPLE (3)A Pleasing Printer, Little Expense Angela Brett, in response to EPSON
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware
APPLETALKAnyone Planning Printer LAN Expects To AppleTalk Like Krazy! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software
APRONYMA Petite Reminder (Openers Notation) Yields Mnemonic Angela Brett (see APRONYMS)
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYM!Acronym's Peak! Representation Organic, Novel, Yare, Mirthful! Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. Y was the hardest! Fortunately, Y is has only pages 1365-1370 in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Tenth Edition.) So, I learned YARE! THANK YOU, Tony McCoy O'Grady, Angela Brett & all the rest of APRONYMANIACSVILLE! The only times I have learned more is when I have made original math discoveries.
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYM (2)A Playful Reduction Of Notation Yields Miniature Angela Brett, although this doesn't convey very well that the 'miniature' is supposed to mean the same thing as the original. (see APRONYMS)
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (2)A Phrase Reminiscent Of Name You Made Shorter Angela Brett (see APRONYMS)
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (3)A Potted Rendition Of Notion Yields Miniature Summary Angela Brett (see APRONYMS)
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (4)Anyone's Permitted Ratifying O'Grady's Neologism? Yes, Make Some! Angela Brett (see APRONYMS)
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (10)A Propos Restriction On 'Nyms, You Maintain Semantics. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APRONYMS (11)Acronyms' Prolonged Representations Obviously Near Your Main Subjects Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APROVEApronym Passes Rigors Of Vetting/ Examination Angela Brett thinking that APROVE could mean approve an APRONYM. Not to be confused with the misspelling of approve, of which I DISAPROVE.
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
APTITUDEA Prized Talent Is To Unerringly Do Everything Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Personality Traits
APTONYMSAppropriate Phrases To Obviate Nuances Your Morphemes Suggest Angela Brett, after Tony suggested that 'aptonyms' might be a better name for our creations.
Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words
A QUESTIONAngela Quite Usually Enquires, "Support This Idea, Or Not?" Angela Brett, as the subject of an email asking whether to implement an idea in the ALTSCAPE software.
Computers:Programming
Communication
ARBOKAloud, Read Backwards, Ophidian's Known Angela Brett (Arbok is Pokemon #24)
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
ARCHAEOPTERYXAlthough Rather Controversial, Hailed As Earliest Ornithoid. Precursor To Everyday Robins, Yet Xtinct. Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Animals:Dinosaurs
AREAcronym Requests Expansion Angela Brett, when Jeff capitalised ARE on the Acronyms forums.
Communication:Acronyms Forums
ARGH!Angela Rarely Gets Headrest Angela Brett, late at night after adding a lot of apronyms (there are still many waiting to be reviewed, though it's not really an ARGH thing as it's great that people have been submitting so many apronyms.)
Words & Wordplay:Acronyms about Acronyms
ARGONA Royal Gas?! Oh, Noble! Angela Brett
Science:Chemistry:Elements
ARITHMETIC (3)Adding Real Integers Together Has Made Everyone Think It's Complicated Angela Brett, when somebody mentioned the mnemonic 'A Red Indian Thought He Might Eat Toffee In Church', and noted that a politically correct version would spell anathematic.
Science:Mathematics
ARMA Reaching Mechanism Angela Brett and Peter Coxhead
Science:Biology:Body Parts
ARMAGEDDON (2)Anxiously Reading Magazine About Goddesses, Engineering Doomsday Decorations On Nebulae. Angela Brett, to accompany a short story she's writing. If you really want to read the story, email angela@kagi.com and ask for it.
Religion
A ROLLING STONE GATHERS NO MOSSA Rule Of Lichen Life Is No Genesis Somewhere That's, On Next Examination, Gone Another Turn. Humans Extract Ridiculous Symbolic Nuances Of Meaning Of Simple Science. Angela Brett
Assorted Phrases:Sayings
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCEA Rabbit Teasing In Front Impels Canines In Abortive Laps; In New Technology, Endpoint/Endeavour Likewise Lacks In Genuine Ending. No Conquest's Enough! Angela Brett, because once something (such as handwriting recognition or chess-playing computers) which would have been considered artificial intelligence becomes commonplace, it is no longer really considered to be AI. AI is redefined to be something ever more complicated so that we can never actually say we've succeeded in creating it. This reminds me of racing dogs chasing after a rabbit which they can never catch.
Computers
A SAPAll Sweet And Planty Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Plants
AS FAR AS I CAN REMEMBERAll Slightly Fuzzy, As Recollections Are... So In Case A Negative Results Endorsing Memory, Everyone Mustn't Be Entirely Reliant. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Thoughts
ASHAnimated Super Hero Angela Brett, referring to the main character in the Pokemon TV series and movies.
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
ASH KETCHUMAll Series, He Keeps Eating, Then Coaching His Unusual Monsters. Angela Brett, referring to the character in the POKEMON TV series.
Computers:Games:Game Characters:Pokemon
ASIAN CUISINEA Spicy Indian Appetizer, Next Chinese Udon In Soup. It's Notably Ethnic. Angela Brett
Food & Drink
ASPARAGUS ROOTAntibiotic Saponins Protect Against Rheumatism And Generate Urine, So Run On Overdrive -- Toiletward! Angela Brett
Food & Drink
ASSAGAIA Slender Spear African Guards Aim Impeccably Angela Brett
Military:Weapons

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