As a longtime copy editor and certified word nerd, nothing drives me crazier than seeing words misused. Whether it’s people ...

In a recent newsletter, we asked the question “Who’s minding the acronym store?” The major point there was that our industry has a most confusing habit of reusing the same combinations of letters for ...

Sometimes we have a lot to say, but little time to say it. That’s where acronyms come in and help speed things up. What exactly is an acronym? It’s a word comprised of the first initials of the other ...

Acronyms and abbreviations are both commonly used in the English language. But interestingly, there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated. For the record, an ...