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• Love And Marriage: 'The Nest' Mag: The Horror Of "The Marrieds"

  Published: August 29, 2007, 1:20 pm

  Tags: Dumb Acronyms, Femiladyism Was Fun While It Lasted, Jezebel, Love Marriage, Magazines, The Nest, Top

  The other day, a magazine arrived addressed to a former occupant of my apartment. It was a copy of The Nest magazine, which is published by theknot.com. The thinking seems to be that women go to...

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• Text messaging homework angers parents

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Acronyms, Cell Phone, Cellphone, Grand Prairie Texas, Grandprairietexas, Homework, Jackson Middle School, Jacksonmiddleschool, Text, Text Language, Text Message, Text Messaging Homework, Texting, Textlanguage, Textmessage, Textmessaginghomework

  strange abbreviations and acronyms that kids employ to get their message across. If I cared enough about it, I could learn about them here. But students at Jackson Middle School in Grand Prairie, Texas, were given the opportunity to learn the secret language of texting via a homework assignment. And that has some parents steamed.The sixth

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• Common PC Acronyms

  Published: September 19, 2007, 10:49 pm

  Tags: Computer Acronyms

  ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber LineAGP - Accelerated Graphics PortALI - Acer Labs, IncorporatedALU - Arithmetic Logic UnitAMD - Advanced Micro DevicesAPC - American Power ConversionASCII - American Standard Code for Information InterchangeASIC - Application Specific Integrated CircuitASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming InterfaceAT - Advanced

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• Using CL to Teach Vocabulary

  Published: December 21, 2007, 8:17 pm

  Tags: Survival Words, Acronyms And Abbreviations, Vocabulary

  useful for teaching acronyms and abbreviations and other vocabulary. I stumbled across this fact last week when a student asked me what "420" meant. He was looking for an apartment and found the phrase "420 friendly" in several advertisements. This isn't the sort of thing taught in most ESL classes!In addition to developing lesson plans

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• ESL 099 on Yahoo Answers

  Published: November 12, 2007, 1:46 am

  Tags: Esl Miscellaneous, Acronyms And Abbreviations

  I got another "Best Answer" on Yahoo! Answers. The question wasn't too tough, but I guess most things aren't tough when you're familiar with them.The question was, "Does anyone know what does ESL 099 mean?" Written correctly, the question would be, "Does anyone know what ESL 099 means?"My answer was, "Usually, something like 'ESL 099' is the name

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• The ABCs of WTSHTF

  Published: May 12, 2008, 8:27 pm

  Tags: Abbreviations, Acronyms, Glossary

  occasionally run into odd acronyms and initialisms that can be confusing if they are unfamiliar to you. I’ve put together a brief list of some of the most common ones and their translations: BOB Bug Out Bag. A bag that you keep ready-packed with items to get you through an evacuation, such as hurricane or flash flood warnings.

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• Online Dating Websites: Acronyms and Shortcuts - What is LOL?

  Published: May 20, 2008, 8:23 pm

  Tags: Chat Acronyms, Lol, Online Dating, Online Dating Websites

  and other symbols) and acronyms that may leave you scratching your head. Today, I’ll be addressing the acronyms. In the online world there are some commonly accepted acronyms that you will see used in online dating website profiles, in online dating website communications, and in online dating website chat rooms. They will show up in

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• Teens translate WTF for clueless adults

  Published: June 30, 2008, 3:02 pm

  Tags: Division Of Motor Vehicles, Divisionofmotorvehicles, Dmv, Internet Acronyms, Internetacronyms, License Plates, Licenseplates, North Carolina License Plates, Northcarolinalicenseplates, Wtf

  with common Internet acronyms like LOL, IMHO, BRB, and the ever-popular WTF. If not, perhaps you work for the Division of Motor Vehicles in North Carolina. Those guys may be first in flight, but they are apparently the last to know that when you put the letters W, T and F together, they convey a rather inappropriate message for a

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• Escape CHAOS with FlyLady

  Published: July 13, 2008, 2:16 pm

  Tags: 11 Commandments, 11commandments, Acronyms, Cant Have Anyone Over Syndrome, Canthaveanyoneoversyndrome, Chaos, Clutter, Fly Lady, Flying Lessons, Flyinglessons, Flylady, Hugs, Messy, Sink

  Filed under: Haute HomeYesterday we were struck with a serious case of CHAOS: Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome. Dishes in the sink, a pile of laundry that needed to be folded and then put away, two months worth of bills in a teetering pile on the "coffee table"...the list goes on and on. It so cluttered we were having trouble concentrating, and

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