Sometimes I notice when I switch. Usually I try to say the letters but often laziness wins out.

FAQ is fack.

Work is very very self-devised acronym heavy. Some are pronounced like letters, some spoken as words. Half the terms I use, I have no idea what they stand for. And neither does anyone else. Once upon a time, the new employee handbook came with a list of acronyms and what they stood for. They ditched it somewhere around the point it got to 10 single spaced, two-sided pages. It's crackers. They give Quakers a run for the money on acronyms.

NASA is still the acronym king, right?

eta: Or is it the military?

I suspect the military's acronyms creep into daily speech more than NASA's, but within a professional setting, they're neck and neck.

Disney is frighteningly acronym heavy internally. All the resorts and properties are referred to by three letter acronyms. Disneyland Resort is DLR, Tokyo Disney Sea is TDS, I still almost always say DCA instead of Disneys California Adventure. Imaginering is WDI. Even the attractions get them. When I was working on Space Mountain the official designation was SPAC but most of us like to use SPAM.

Post Toasties

I now remember that when I got hired at Disney in the 90's part of my hiring package was a mutilpage document that a listing of the most common company acronyms and their meanings.

My boss used SCON in a document the other day, and I googled it and decided it meant software consolidation, but that didn't entirely make sense in context, so I asked.

He couldn't tell me what it meant, just where it was used and that it was common int he company. I replaced the line in the project status report with one I understood, in case anyone asked.

And of course I had no idea how to say it, so I just pointed at it onscreen. Not my brightest moment at the new job.

Harkening back to earlier:

Jon Stewart is about to make me split something with his Glen Beck impersonation.

I just watched this. Dead-on brilliant. I was saying "Say it! Say "I just love Beck's innards so much and I fear for them!"" and then he did! I was laughing so hard I scared the cat.

I read part of this discussion to The Boy, who said, "But I *always* say 'yourl'!"

Not ewe-are-ell; not earl. A bastardization of the two. WTFAQ, man?

I now remember that when I got hired at Disney in the 90's part of my hiring package was a mutilpage document that a listing of the most common company acronyms and their meanings.

Would this be an acronym FAQ? Or, if you will, a FAQronym?

Tuesday night was the first time in almost 2 years at this job that I wondered if it would be worth turning off the car on the "drive" home. For a while, I thought tonight was going to be the second.

I can not WAIT until people figure out how to drive in the dark again.