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You probably use acronyms every day without even realizing it. Some abbreviations get used so much they just become regular ...

A number of the new entries are abbreviations and slang terms that have become ubiquitous on social media. Merriam-Webster.com is displayed on a computer screen. Merriam-Webster has added 455 new ...

Acronyms and abbreviations are both commonly used in the English language. But interestingly, there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated. For the record, an ...

Researchers at Dartmouth have analyzed over 180 million tweets from 900,000 users in the United States — and they’ve come up with a list of the new abbreviated words that spread on Twitter. But, hey, ...