Abbreviations: Miscellaneous

Personal Ads

This section may one day turn into a page in its own right. In the meantime, here are a few abbreviations that you might see used in personal advertisements, or on a dating website (should you ever happen to see one ... )

ANI		Age Not Important
GSOH		Good Sense Of Humour
LTR		Long Term Relationship
NSA		No Strings Attached
OHAC		Own House And Car
WLTM		Would Like To Meet

Other

ABV		Alcohol By Volume (a measure of the strength of beer)
Acca (type of bet)		Accumulator
ACV		Asset of Community Value
AD		Anno Domini
a.m.		Ante meridiem (before midday)
AOC		Appellation d'Origine Controllée
asap		As Soon As Possible
AST		Assured Shorthold Tenancy
		Atlantic Standard Time
BC		Before Christ
BCE		Before the Common Era (equivalent to BC)
Blog		Weblog
BST		British Summer Time
BYOB		Bring Your Own Bottle / Beer / Booze (on a party invitation)
cc		Carbon copy (or courtesy copy)
CE		Common Era (equivalent to AD)
CET		Central European Time
cf		Confer
CN (Tower)		Canadian National (railway company)
Contrail		Condensation trail (vapour trail)
DC		District of Columbia
DINKY		Double Income, No Kids (Yet)
DOM		Deo Optimo Maximo (to God most good most great)
DPC		Damp Proof Course
DPM		Damp Proof Membrane
E&OE		Errors and Omissions Excepted
e.g.		Exempli gratia (literally 'for the sake of an example')
ETA		Estimated Time of Arrival
ETD		Estimated Time of Departure
FDC (in philately)		First Day Cover
Fracking		Hydraulic fracturing
FYM (to a gardener)		Farm Yard Manure
HOLLAND		Hope Our Love Lives And Never Dies
i.e.		id est
ktbl (in knitting)		knit through back loop
IPA		India Pale Ale or International Phonetic Alphabet
LBV		Late Bottled Vintage
Locum		Locum tenens (or tenentes)
MCP		Male Chauvinist Pig
MOMA		Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Navvy		Navigator
NEET		Not in Education, Employment or Training (i.e. unemployed – generally used of young people)
NFT		Non–Fungible Token
NIB		New In Box (on auction websites, e.g. eBay)
NIMBY		Not In My Back Yard
OIEO		Offers In Excess Of
o.n.o.		Or near(est) offer
PAL		Phase Alternating Line (the colour television broadcasting system used in Europe)
PCB		Printed Circuit Board
PDO		Protected Designation of Origin
PGI		Protected Geographical Indication
PLUTO (in WWII)		PipeLine Under The Ocean
p.m.		Post meridiem (after midday)
Pokémon		Pocket monsters
POM(E)		Prisoner Of Mother England (possibly)
Posh (possibly)		Port Out Starboard Home
PPE		Personal Protective Equipment
q.v.		quod vide (which see)
QED		Quod Erat Demonstrandum (which was to be demonstrated)
RAAC (building material)		Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete
RSJ		Rolled Steel Joist
RSVP		Respondez s'il–vous–plait
SCUBA		Self–Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
SOS		Nothing! (It's just an easily recognised sequence in Morse code)
Soweto		SOuth WEst TOwnship
Spam		Spiced Ham (or, Shoulder of Pork and Ham)
SPQR		Senatus PopulusQue Romana (The Senate and People of Rome)
sqq		The following ones
St. Kitts		Saint Christopher
SWALK		Sealed With A Loving Kiss
Tart		Sweetheart
TOIL		Time Off In Lieu (of overtime)
Trig (point)		Triangulation (point)
TSG		Traditional Specialities Guaranteed (see PDO and PGI)
TT		TeeTotal
USSR		Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
VDQS		Vins Delimites de Qualite Superieur
VIP		Very Important Person
viz		Videlicet
VSOP (brandy)		Very Superior Old Pale
WASP		White Anglo–Saxon Protestant
Wilco		I will comply
Yuppie		Young Urban Professional – or Young Upwardly–Mobile Professional
ZIP code		Zone Improvement Plan

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