What is your least favourite acronym?
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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
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Had an old colleague who kept abbreviating 'follow up' as 'f/up.'
"Yeah we should be okay, I'll f/up on that later today."
"Hey are you able to f/up on this?"
"Hey, I f/uped with our boss today on our issue."
That is an... unwise abbreviation
I learned this as medical short hand back before electronic medical records were everywhere. Except I used f/u instead of f/up. This phrase went in almost every single case note every day so I used the short hand A LOT. It still sneaks into my writing sometimes.
I always read “f/u w/PCP” as “fucked up on PCP” instead of “follow up with primary care provider”.