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What is your least favourite acronym? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 10 months ago by thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 10 months ago (4 children)

iirc just because i dont know what it means

[–] thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz 11 points 10 months ago

iirc it means "if I recall/remember correctly"

[–] technohacker@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

IIRC, it stands for "If I Remember Correctly"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

If I remember correctly that stands for "if invisible raccoons concur".

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It means "If I remember correctly" - iirc

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

You missed the opportunity to use iirc during the definition of iirc.