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| BEG | Best Expand Generously |
Jeff Anonymous, saying, 'Capital phrases just BEG for expansion, you know...' |
| BLOWN AWAY! | Blimey! Loads Of Wonderful New Acronyms. Wordsmiths Adore You! |
Angela Brett, when Tony produced a particularly good round of acronyms. |
| CAPITAL LETTERS PLEASE | Could All Participants Integrate Their Acronym Lettering. Let's Explain That This Eases Reading. Some People Leave Expansions Abyssmally Sloppily Executed! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Edwin didn't capitalise the initials in his expansion. |
| CAPS LOCK | Creating Acronyms? Please See Listed Obligations - Charter's Known |
Tony McCoy O'Grady and Angela Brett, because of the rule in THE ACRONYMISTS' CHARTER saying that IF YOU PUT A WORD IN CAPS YOU MUST ACRONYMISE IT. |
| CAPS LOCK (2) | Could Angela Perhaps Say, "Luck's Out... Charter's Known!"? |
Jeff Anonymous (see CAPS LOCK) |
| CAPTURE (2) | Create Apronyms, Pert Terms Unbearable! Recall Effortlessy! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| CHAT ACRONYMS | Chuckling Heartily As Typing A Capitalised ROTFL? Oh No, You're Merely Smiling. |
Angela Brett, who notices that some people reflexively type acronyms suggesting laughter (such as ROTFL: Rolling On The Floor Laughing) when they actually aren't laughing. Laughter Laughter |
| CHATROOM ACRONYMS | Common, Hardly Artistic Typing Reducers... Often Original Meanings Aren't Consciously Recalled, Only Nonsense You Mechanically Say. |
Angela Brett, referring to the way many people reflexively type LOL when they didn't laugh out loud, and even go as far as typing LOLOLOLOLOLOL for emphasis, which makes no sense at all. Computers:Internet Computers:Internet |
| COMMA (2) | Come On, Many More Acronyms! |
Gavin Lambert, pointing out a missing comma in an acronym featured in THE ACRONYM TIMES |
| COMPANY NAMES | Corporations Often Make Particular Apronymic Names - Yet Not Always Make Economic Sense |
Tony McCoy O'Grady - some apronymic names don't always tell the customer immeidately what the company does. Esso was an attempt at spelling the word formed by S and O, the initials of Standard Oil. Standard Oil tells the comsumer much more than Esso or Exxon do. Commerce:Companies Commerce:Companies |
| CRAMMED | Creatively Represented, Apronymic Memory. Mnemonics Extra Dense! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| DAMN | Didn't Acronymise... More Needed. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett, because Eric had created enough new acronyms to overtake Steve on the hall of fame. |
| DATA CENTRALIZATION | Do All The Acronyms Created Editorially Need To Relate And Lexically Indicate Zero Affiliation To Imagination Or Not? |
Sean Lamb |
| DILIGENT | Doggedly Impacting List, I've Gotta Expand New Terms! |
Angela Brett, after diligently expanding a lot of the terms from the unsuccessful searches list. People & Relationships:Personality Traits People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| DYSPROSIUM | Do You Suppose People Realise Our Sillinesses Indicate Unsound Minds? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements Science:Chemistry:Elements |
| EI+EI+O | Explain It + Expand It + Observe |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, wondering why the (imaginary and irrational) rule saying that IF YOU PUT A WORD IN CAPS YOU MUST ACRONYMISE IT is rule ei+ei+0 of the Acronymists' Charter. |
| ENCOURAGEMENT (2) | Expansions Needed... Come On! Usual Rico / Angela Garbage Eventually Makes Extinct New Thought. |
Angela Brett, when for a while most of the acronyms contributed were from her or Rico. |
| EVERY WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE | Every Victorious Effort Reveals Your Worth! One Really Difficult Interpretation Names Thee Hero! Eventually Even Nonsensical Gibberish Leaves Insiders Shouting "Hurray!" Lastly, Acronym Neurosis Grows Unchecked, Aggravating General Excitability |
Patricia Rix |
| EVERY WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (2) | Extremely Valiant Effort - Regularly You Work On Reliable Dictionary; Incredibly, No Thesaurus Has Every Existing Nuance! Go Looking In Sundry Hackneyed Lexicons And Now Generate Universal Acronyms & Great Expansions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady and Patricia Rix |
| 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. |
| FAMOUS (2) | Finally A Merit Of Useless Submissions |
Carl Brett, after being informed that he'd submitted enough acronyms to get on the HALL OF FAME. |
| FORUM POST (4) | Follow Our Rules! Use - Mostly - Properly Operated Spelling Techniques! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after some purposeful and extremely unlikely misspellings were used in expansions in a forum post. Communication:Acronyms Forums:Page Titles Communication:Acronyms Forums:Page Titles |
| GEEKY ACRONYMS (2) | Gotos Evil, Everybody Knows. You Always Can Rely On (Names You've Mangled) Subroutines |
Angela Brett, thinking of abbreviated function names. Computers:Programming Computers:Programming |
| HA-HA | Hardly A Hilarious Acronym |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to FLAME and FIRE (3) |
| 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. |
| HOW DO I SUBMIT? | Hello O Wise Dictionary Owners. Is Submission Undertaken By Me Ideally Tackled? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when someone capitalised 'HOW DO I SUBMIT?' on the Acronyms forums. Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| HOW'S THAT? | Here's One Witting Suggestion To Have Angela Tittering |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after IT CAN BE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS YOU ACRONYMISE IT |
| I LEFT AN 'F' OUT OF MY ACRONYM AND I NEVER NOTICED | It's Laughable! Each Flaw-Teasing Acronym: New Flaw. One Unfailing Typed Output From Me, & Yucky Acronym Cycle's Rounded Off. Now, You Must Always Notice Details... Initials Not Excluded, Valid Expansion, Recheck Nothing's Omitted - Type It Correctly, Everything Done. |
Angela Brett, after Tony acronymised a similar phrase pointing out a missed letter in one of Jeff's acronyms, but Tony's expansion was missing an F-word. Perhaps he's just too polite. ;) |
| I'M AN IDIOT | I Must Amend Neglectfulness -- I Didn't Inspect Original Typing |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when he missed out a word when typing an acronym on the forums. Assorted Phrases Assorted Phrases |
| IMPOSSIBLE | I Mustn't Pass On Something So Irresistible... 'Bad' Letters Expanded! |
Angela Brett, when it was said that EPHEMERAL was impossible to expand. Assorted Adjectives Assorted Adjectives |
| I'M SLOW | It's My Sad Life On Windoze |
Angela Brett, as an explanation for not having noticed JAGUAR (7), OBJECTIVE-C and COCOA (2) which were hidden uncapitalised in an email. |
| INSPIRATION | I Need Some! Please Invent Rousing Acronyms To Inspire Others... Now! |
Angela Brett |
| ISO | Initials Seem Off |
Angela Brett (ISO usually means International Organization for Standardization, so it seems as though its abbreviation should be IOS. However, ISO is not an acronym... as explained at http://www.iso.org/iso/en/aboutiso/introduction/index.html#three) |
| ISO (2) | Initials Swapped Over? |
Angela Brett (ISO usually means International Organization for Standardization, so it seems as though its abbreviation should be IOS. However, ISO is not an acronym... as explained at http://www.iso.org/iso/en/aboutiso/introduction/index.html#three) |
| IT CAN BE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE AS LONG AS YOU ACRONYMISE IT | I Think Championship Acronyms Need Bigness! Especially Astounding Samples Live On, Never Growing Aged, Surviving Years Of Uncontested Laughter Inducement. Keen, Eager Acronymists Should Laugh Off Newly Generated Attempts. Stretching Your Offering Usually Assures Colleagues Recognition - Only Note.... You Must Individually Spell Each Item Therein |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, acronymising Angela's response to his question about how long the description on the page listing his acronyms could be. Words & Wordplay:Ridiculously long apronyms Words & Wordplay:Ridiculously long apronyms |
| I VENTURE TO SAY | I'm Very Eager Not To Undertake Rule Elucidation - They're Only Standard Acronymic Yardsticks |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to the suggestion that we collate all the rules in THE ACRONYMISTS' CHARTER. |
| LATE EXTRA | Late Appearance: Tony's Evidently Erroneous - Xenon Triggered Researcher's Alertness |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, suggesting a title for THE ACRONYM TIMES issue which was delayed because, among other things, Angela wanted to put a 'tour' of chemical element acronyms on the website and realised that XENON was missing. |
| LIST OF TWELVE ACRONYMS | Look, I Should Tell Of Feature That Will Eventually Let Visitors Easily Add Collections, Regardless Of Number You Might Seek. |
Angela Brett -- I don't know why someone searched for this phrase, but no category listing is guaranteed to have only twelve acronyms, even the months and zodiac signs have had more added. However, I am considering putting in place a system so that people can compile their own lists of related acronyms (which wouldn't otherwise be together in category lists) and one could be made which includes twelve apronyms only. |
| LOO (2) | Loss Of Originality |
Jeff Anonymous, who admits that his acronym ideas have headed down the toilet in recent days. |
| LOVE (18) | Lots Of Valid Expansions |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Love & Lust People & Relationships:Love & Lust |
| MACHINE | Making Acronyms Constantly - He Is Neatly Eloquent. |
Angela Brett, describing Tony after reading an email from him containing 45 new acronyms, mostly related to Arthurian legend. |
| MADMAN (2) | Makes Apronyms Daily... Maybe Assumes Normal? |
Angela Brett Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| MADMAN (3) | Maybe Anthony's Defective, Maybe Angela's Not? |
TMcO'G, in response to MADMAN (2) Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness Science:Biology:Healthcare:Ailments:Mental Illness |
| MAKE SENSE OF IT | Maybe Anthony Kept Essaying Suitable Expansions. No Single Expansion Offered Fitted It Truely. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady. (See SENSE OF IT) |
| MAKE SENSE OF IT (2) | Make All Key Elements Snuggly Enmesh - No Superfluous Es Or Fs In There |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MASS (2) | Memory Apronymic: Super - Stuffed! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. referring to the mass of information which can be crammed in using apronyms. |
| MASTER OF ACRONYMS | Makes Acronyms So Terrific, Everyone Recognises Outstanding Flair And Creativity. Ready Or Not, You're Made Superstar! |
Angela Brett, describing Tony. |
| MENTAL | Mind Expanding? No? Then Add Letters. |
Angela Brett -- whichever meaning you read into this, apronymising is mental! |
| MFLA | Meaningless Four-Letter Acronym |
Zebedee (note: MFLA is allowed in the stack because it fits its expansion in the same way TLA does. However, it would be far too easy to extend this idea to a completely pointless five-letter acronym or an easy to create six-letter acronym, or to even more absurd lengths, so no further such acronyms will be accepted.) |
| NEW ACROS | Nice Extremely Weird Acronyms, Created Rapidly Online, Stupendous! |
Jeff Anonymous, after he'd capitalised NEW ACROS in a forum post and Angela reminded him to acronymise capitalised words. |
| NEW ACROS (2) | New Entrant Waives Anonymity - Cautiously Reveals Original Surname |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, referring to Jeff. Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| NO REST | Nodded Off, Ruining Expansion... Superfluous Typing. |
Angela Brett, when Tony said that he must have nodded off when he added an extra P word to the 'ROSES ARE RED...' expansion - see PURPPLE. |
| NYMBLE MINDED | Now You're Mentally Bubbling - Let's Enjoy Mentally Inventing 'Nyms - Delightful Expansions Delivered. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| NZ ACRONYMS | Now Zey're Apronyms! Creatively Rearranged Original Name, Yet Meaning Similar. |
Gavin Lambert Places:Countries Places:Countries |
| OF COURSE | Our Famous Charter Obliges Urgent Requirement - Succinct Expansion! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela asked if a poster on the forums was obliged to expand something which was in capitals. |
| OI | Over, Izzit? |
Jeff Anonymous, when Angela capitalised OI. This one is best understood if you look at the 'Illiterations' thread on the Acronyms forums, at http://www.co.nz/cgi/forums/list.cgi?id=acronyms&user=&session=&root=984136095 |
| ON A ROLL (2) | One New Acronym -- Randomly Ordered Lyrical Language |
Gavin Lambert |
| ONE MORE | Oh No, Even More Overly Ridiculous Effluent. |
Blair, on hearing that he only needed to do one more acronym to get on the hall of fame. |
| ORGANIC (2) | Organicvegans' Resource: Generate/Greatest "Apronyms" = "Neat Internal Codes!" |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. |
| PERFECT (2) | Pun Experts: Ready For Expansions? Call Tony! |
Angela Brett, since Tony's acronyms are generally of very high quality. |
| PI TIMES THREE I | Perchance If Thou Inexplicably Mutters Expandable Shoutings, Thou Hasto Really Expand 'Em Immediately! |
Jeff Anonymous ('Immediately' suggested by Tony McCoy O'Grady) rationalizing semi-imaginary rule pi*3i, which states that all things rendered in capitals on the Acronyms fora must be acronymised. Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| PI TIMES THREE I (2) | People Ignoring To Immediately Make Expansions Should Try Harder - Rendering Expansions Educates Individuals. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (see PI TIMES THREE I) Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| POOPHOLE | P*ss Off, Offensive People... Hardly One Lecherous Expansion |
Steve Keate, when someone searched acronyms.co.nz for 'poophole' and some ruder words. |
| PUNCTUATION | Perhaps Underutilised, Need Commas To Understand Acronyms! Trivial Indeed, One Nods |
Gavin Lambert Science:Linguistics Science:Linguistics |
| PURE (2) | Perfectly (Unillogical) Reasonable Expansion |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Jeff suggested putting LAURA in the credit of MICHAEL SEILER, 'so as not to fill the stack and site with PURE nonsense.' Of course the capitalised PURE demanded a pure expansion. |
| RACE (3) | Rapid Acronymising Crushes Eric |
Steve Keate, on hearing that Eric was about to overtake him on the ACRONYMS hall of fame. |
| REALISE | Read! Expand Apronymists! Live Innovation! Supersede Expansions! |
Charles H. Montgomery, Jr. on realising the potential of apronymists. |
| REJECTS (2) | Refused Entry Justly. Entry Criteria Taken Seriously! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| REJECTS (3) | Rubbishy Entries Justifiably Evicted - Cannot Taint Stack. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SAINT CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY | Someone At Institution Needed To 'Cleverize' Lettering Of University, Didn't Say The Apronym's Topic... Expansion's Unfortunately Not Interesting. Valid Expansion Regardless... Searcher, I'll Teach You! |
Angela Brett, when somebody searched for this phrase on the site, but didn't leave any information on what sort of apronym was wanted. Education:Schools Education:Schools |
| SALT (3) | Something A Lexicographer Takes? |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela said 'No lexicographer worth his salt would say that apronym is not in use!' |
| SENSE OF IT | Suitable Expansions Need Suitable Expressions Offered For Interesting Tony |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Angela challenged him to make SENSE OF IT and he said that "SENSE OF IT" doesn't make any sense of its own, so he'd play around with it. |
| SIMIAN SIM | Seems Intelligent Monkey Is Acronymising - Not Some Irish Mastermind! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, after Angela mentioned, "It's so obvious that even a poorly programmed monkey simulator running on Windows 95 could have thought of it" as a possible interpretation of her compliment of another of Tony's acronyms. Computers Computers |
| SLEEP (3) | Stop Letting Expansions Experience Priority |
Angela Brett, when she wanted to go to sleep but kept having to turn on the light and write down acronyms which came to mind. |
| SMALL LETTERS | Some Minds Acronymise Lowercase Letters Leading Even Tony To Exemplify Resounding Silliness. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when a newcomer on the acronyms forums deliberately used small letters throughout a post in order to avoid having to acronymise any capitalised words. Communication:Acronyms Forums Communication:Acronyms Forums |
| SOME PEOPLE HAVE TOO MUCH TIME | Seems Our Mirthful Expansions Possibly Enrage Other People, Leaving 'Em Hot And Voicing Envy. They Obviously Ought Make Up Comedic (Hoepfully They'll Invent Many) Expansions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| SPARSE | Some People Acronymise Rapidly, Some Exceptionally! |
Angela Brett, while Tony was producing over 40 new acronyms per day and her own contributions were becoming rather SPARSE. (But his are great too, I don't really mean that speed is reducing his quality) |
| STATE YOUR GOALS | Somehow To Acronymise, Totally, English. Yeah, Obviously Unnattainable... Real Goals Often Are. Let's Strive! |
Angela Brett |
| SUBSCRIPTION | Send Us (Bimonthly?) Submissions Created Recently. I Prefer Them In One Newsletter. |
Robert Tunney - An apronym written about the apronym times. |
| VERONICA | Vicarious Expanders: Remember, Our Niche Is Creative Acronyms. |
Angela Brett, after somebody who apparently hadn't read the submission guidelines at http://acronyms.co.nz/guidelines.html submitted a common jargon-variety expansion for VERONICA. |
| WHAT IS AN ACRONYM? | We Here Assert That Initials Spell Another (Nice And Compact) Representation, Outlining Neatly Your Meaning. |
Angela Brett |
| WHAT IS THE LONGEST ACRONYM? | Well, Here's A Tip - Its Subject Touts Home Electronics. List Of Numerous Genius' Eccentricities - Such Traits Are Considered Representative Of Non-Yoked Minds |
Angela Brett, when somebody typed 'what is the longest acronym?' into the search field on HTTP://ACRONYMS.CO.NZ>. This acronym is referring to the HERE'S TO THE CRAZY ONES... acronym, which is the longest at the time of adding this acronym, but a current list of all ridiculously long acronyms is at http://apronyms.com/wordswordplay/ridiculouslylongapronyms |
| WHAT THE HELL IS ALL THIS CRAP? | Who Here Are There To Help Explain How Everything's Linked? Listing Idiotic Silly Acronyms Looks Like Twaddle. Huh, I Swear Contributing Readers Are Psychotic! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, in response to an unsuccessful search for that phrase. |
| WITS | Words In Tidy Sequences |
Angela Brett, anticipating a battle of wits when Gavin was knocked off the bottom of the HALL OF FAME |
| WITS (2) | Words In Tight Spaces |
Angela Brett, anticipating a battle of wits when Gavin was knocked off the bottom of the HALL OF FAME |
| WONDERFUL | Wordsmith O'grady Now Deserves Extra Respect For Unbeatable Letters. |
Angela Brett, after reading Tony's TOPS AND TAILS. |
| WOW | Works Out Wonderfully! |
Angela Brett, after reading TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY |
| YASA | Yet Another Silly Acronym |
Original author unknown... however when Angela first used it in an email, Tony suggested 'You Are So Apposite', 'You're A Saintly Anthony', and 'Youth And Sex Abound.' Angela then replied with 'You Are Self-praising Also.' Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational Re-expansions of existing acronyms:Conversational |
| YOU'VE LEFT OUT A Y - CALAMITY! | You've Omitted Unique Vowel, Exceptional Letter - Eminently Flexible To Operate Usefully Twoways As Your Consonantal Assonantal Letter. Angela Might Indicate To You. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, when Jeff left out a Y in an expansion of ZZZZZZZZZRA on the forums. |
| YTTERBIUM | You Try This Expansion. Reference Book Is Unhelpful, Mostly. |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science:Chemistry:Elements Science:Chemistry:Elements |
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