From LOL to OMG, these are the texting acronyms Americans can't get enough of. TBH, the list of texting abbreviations is endless. I mean, seriously, in an ever-changing world of the internet and ...

Millennial parents are no strangers to acronyms. In fact, Millennials and Gen Xers are credited with making "LOL" (laughing out loud) so popular on instant messenger, that it eventually earned a spot ...

For the sake of this story, I'd like to invent a new acronym: IAVS, which means, "I am very sorry." The reason for the apology stems from a story I wrote last year, "28 Internet acronyms every parent ...

Researchers have analyzed 24 million scientific article titles and 18 million abstracts between 1950 and 2019, looking for trends in acronym use. Despite repeated calls for scientists to reduce their ...

Acronyms and initialisms are a great way to save time on writing or saying unwieldy phrases, from graphics interchange format (GIF) to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Many of us know how it feels to not ...

Experts decode some of the most frequently-used acronyms kids are using over text, and discuss the specific ones that should never be ignored. Millennial parents are no strangers to acronyms. In fact, ...

Have you heard of DNA? It stands for Do Not Abbreviate apparently. Jokes aside, it's the most widely used acronym in scientific literature in the past 70 years, appearing more than 2.4 million times.