Merriam-Webster may think the word of the year is slop, but we at Crooks and Liars disagree wholeheartedly. We think the word of the year should be FAFO (F*ck Around and Find Out), because WOW are ...

Vicente Mello of Aecom spoke at Resourcing Tomorrow about mining transformation, noting the lasting ramifications of the Fundão and Brumadinho disasters. Credit: Eve Thomas. Environmental, social and ...

Learning the language of politics, and political organizations, often involves a lot of acronyms. From unions to advocacy groups, many groups want to be known by a short, concise, easy to remember ...

In the fire service, we enjoy using abbreviations and acronyms for things. Now within the context of this article, when I say fire service, I am considering all the different types of responses a ...

In the fire service, we enjoy using abbreviations and acronyms for things. Some fire service personnel tend to go a bit overboard when talking, by using too much "alphabet soup." I'm not providing ...

This page displays General Motors acronyms and abbreviations from today and the past. This page is a continuous work in progress and may not include every GM acronym or GM abbreviation. If you find ...

If you send a significant number of emails daily for work or in your personal life, you may use abbreviations to help compose and send your messages as quickly as possible. Though these abbreviations ...

Texting has its own language – sometimes literally. While most of us have a handle on the basics like “LOL” and “IDK,” a new study from language learning platform Preply reveals that even the most ...

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

Have you ever typed an email and then questioned whether you were misusing a word or abbreviation? As a longtime copy editor who earns a living correcting other people’s grammatical errors, I pay ...

Learn the meaning behind the most-searched text abbreviations of 2025, such as FAFO, SMH, and PMO, based on recent Google Trends data. Language is constantly evolving, and text abbreviations are no ...