Wanna test your acronym acumen? See if you can work out the words behind seven common acronyms that you, and maybe your kids, ...

A comment on our new "He Said, She Said" feature discussing the likelihood of either an Apple Mac Tablet or a Mac UMPC took us to task for our reliance on acronyms and abbreviations. It started me ...

Acronyms Often Have Unintended Double Meanings Evidently in 2009, the state of Iowa decided to change the name of its Department of Elder Affairs to the Department on Aging using the acronym, DOA.

Q: I was talking to a friend about the Realtor she hired to help her find a new home. My friend gave me her agent's card and I noticed she had these extra letters behind her name. What do all those ...

People have relied on acronyms since antiquity, when the government in ancient Rome went by SPQR rather than the more formal Senatus Populusque Romanus. Back then, acronyms may have made it easier for ...

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I'm beginning to despise the use of acronyms at my work. We live in a society that has evolved into a culture of getting things done at an ultra-fast pace. Even in something as ...