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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ESTIMATIONExperience 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
ETHNICITYEven 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
EUTOCIUSEssentially Updated The Others' Calculations - Inscribed Unoriginal Summaries. Angela Brett
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
EVOLUTIONEvery 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 MANAGEMENTEvery Xebec Put Elsewhere Needs Some Explicit Meaning And Necessity. Accountants Gain Extra Money Eliminating Needless Tarriffs. Angela Brett
Commerce
EYEEspy 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(?)
FACEFocus Additional Cosmetic Enhancement Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Body Parts
FACTFunny 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
FAGGOTFellows Are Gay? Good On Them! Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust:LGBTQIA
FAGSFormerly A-Grade Smokes Angela Brett
Drugs:Tobacco
FAILURE (3)Funds Are Inadequate, Loads Under Running Expenses. Angela Brett
Commerce
FAINTFeel(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
FAKESFool And Kwanza Easily Separated Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
FALCONFords Are Like Cars, Only Nicer Angela Brett, who actually has no opinion on which car makes are better.
Transport:Car Makes & Models
FALLFrightened About Looming Landing Angela Brett
Assorted Verbs
Sports & Recreation:Parachuting
FALLINGForget 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
FAMILYFather And Mother, I Love You. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Family
FAMOUSFlaunting Ample Money, Often Under Scandal Angela Brett
Names:Famous people
FARTFree 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 MARKETINGFind A 'Statement', Hang It On Nonchalant Model, And Rich Kids (Exposing Their Insecurities) 'Need' Garment. Angela Brett
Household Objects:Clothing
Commerce
FASHIONSFoster 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
FASTPHONEFunds 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
FATALForwards Abruptly To After-Life Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Death
FAT FREEForget 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
FEMALEFor Ever Moaning About Littlest Errors Steve Keate and Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Genderalisations
FEMALESFor-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
FERMATFamous Equation Really Made Andrew Think! Angela Brett (Andrew Wiles eventually proved Fermat's Last Theorem centuries after Fermat's death.)
Science:Mathematics:Mathematicians
FERRY TICKETForget Enduring Road Rage - You'll Travel In Comfort, Knowing Entrance Time. Angela Brett
Transport
FERTILITYFairly Easy Reproduction, Though Initiating Life Is Terrific Yield Angela Brett
Science:Biology
FIELD DAYFather 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
FILEFor Indicating Length - EOF. Angela Brett
Computers
FINANCIALFather, I Need A New Coat... I'd Appreciate Loan. Angela Brett
Commerce:Money
FINEFromage Is Naturally Exquisite Angela Brett
Food & Drink
FINEDFor Infraction, Ninety-Eight Dollars Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
FINISHEDFinally 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
FIREFlaming 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 ALARMFalsely 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
FIREWIREFast Information Retrieval, Even Without Inconvenient Restarting Everytime. Angela Brett
Computers:Generic Hardware
FIRST-YEAR STUDENTSFriggin' 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
FIVEFive Isn't Very Easy Angela Brett, when Dustan said that FIVE would be a difficult acronym to do.
Science:Mathematics:Numbers
FLAMEFrom 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
FLASHERFellow Likely Acting Sexual, His Exhibitionism's Ribald! Angela Brett
People & Relationships
FLAT WHITEFeel 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
FLAWSFaulty - Like A Windoze System Angela Brett
Assorted Nouns
Computers:Windows
FLIRTFuture Lover Is Really Trying Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
FLIRT (2)Feel Like I'm Romantic Topgun Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
FLIRTINGFeel 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
FLORALFlaunting Likenesses Of Rhododendrons And Lilies Angela Brett
Assorted Adjectives
FLOWERFellow's Love Of Woman Expressed Romantically Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
Science:Biology:Plants
FOCUSFor Orbits, Centre's Usually Star Angela Brett
Science:Astronomy
FOCUS GROUPFeed Our Customers Under Scrutiny, Gauging Reactions On Unfamiliar Products. Angela Brett
Commerce
FOODFoe Of Obsessed Dieters Angela Brett
Food & Drink
FOOL (2)Fell Out Of Love Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Love & Lust
FORFather Of Repetition Angela Brett, because for is usually the best loop to use in C programs.
Computers:Programming
FORECASTFocus On Real Events - Can't Accurately See Tomorrow Angela Brett
Time
FOREMAN OF THE JURYFinished Off Reviewing Evidence, My Announcement Notes Our Findings. Trial Has Ended, Judge Usually Rules Years. Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Law & Order
FORESTFormation 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
FORMFigure Of Representational Medium Angela Brett
Art & Literature
FORTRAN (2)Fine Operations Really Trivialise Replicating Arrays Neatly Angela Brett
Computers:Programming
FORTYFactor Out Repeated Twenty Years Angela Brett
Time:Age
FORTY (2)Friggin' Old - RIP To Youth! Angela Brett
Time:Age
FORUM POSTFor 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 TIFor 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 ROOTFear Of Technology? Ingest Remedy Of Older Times! Angela Brett
Food & Drink:Condiments:Herbs
FRANTFellows 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 STACKFirst 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 BREADFollowing 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
FRODEFiftyish 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 THROATFalse Ribbits One Gets If Needing The Health Resources Otorhinolaryngologists Assent To Angela Brett
Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments
FROM BEHINDFrightened 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
FROSSESFolks 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
FRYFood Ready Yet? Angela Brett
Food & Drink
FTPFollow 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
FUNERALFamily Uncovers Necropolitan Expenses Reducing All Legacies Rico Leffanta and Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Death
FWIWFollowing 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
FYRDForced Youth Recruitment Decreed Angela Brett
Military
FYRDSFor Year-Round Defense Services Angela Brett
Military
GAB (2)Garrulous Annoying Blether Angela Brett
Communication:Talking
GABBLEGarbage 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
GADGETGot Ample Dough? Get Electronic Toys. Angela Brett
Science:Electronics
GAMGreen 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
GAMBLEGain A Million By Losing Empire Angela Brett
Entertainment
GAMBLE (2)Get Additional Money But Lose Everyone Angela Brett
Entertainment
GANTTGraph 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 EDENGobbling 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
GARRETTGaelic - Attention Riveted Regarding Everything That's There Angela Brett (the name Garrett comes from Gaelic and means 'To Watch')
Names:First names:Male
GASBAGGroan... Another Speech By Al Gore. Angela Brett
Politics
GATANISM (2)Gleaning Apple's Trade, And Nerdishly Idolising Satanic Master Angela Brett
Computers:Windows
GATEGrants Access To Everyone Angela Brett
Places
GAUSSGot 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
GAYSGenes 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
GEEKGathers 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
GEEKYGo 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
GENERICGeneralised Extremely, Not Explicit... Really Inspecific Codswallop. Angela Brett, when Bern complained that her HERNIA was too generic. See also: INSPECIFIC
Assorted Adjectives
GENETIC ALGORITHMGuesser Employing Nature's Evolutionary 'Tactics' In Creating A Likely Group Of Resolutions. Increase That Heuristic Measurement! Angela Brett
Science
Computers:Programming
GENETIC ENGINEERINGGodlike 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
GEOMETRYGolly, 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 BENTGet Exercise - Tae Bo Extinguishes Nervous Tension. Angela Brett
Words & Wordplay:Rudeness:Rude Advertising Slogans
GET DRUNKGulp Ethanol To Dull Responses, Uncountable Neurons Killed. Angela Brett
Drugs
GET UP AND GOGreat Energy That Urges People Along... Now Don't Go Overboard! Angela Brett
Assorted Phrases
GFOURGigaflops For Ordinary Users - Revolutionary! Angela Brett
Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Hardware
GHOST (2)Grief Has One Seeing Things Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Death
GHOULSGive Hundreds Of Undead Life, Symbolically Angela Brett
People & Relationships:Death
GIFTGiven In Friendly Transaction Angela Brett
People & Relationships
GIGABYTESGosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. Angela Brett
Computers
GIGGLEGreatly 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
GIVEGift Is Vicariously Enjoyed Angela Brett
Assorted Verbs

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