Linguistics expert Laurie Knox has taken to TikTok to list seven common word from the English language that many didn't ...

Laurie Knox has provided a list of seven common words in the English language you may not have realised are acronyms of terms ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, there are approximately 170,000 in the English language and a further 47,000 that ...

This etymological bombshell set Radio 2 to wondering - just how many other words in common English usage began life as acronyms? The answer, it transpires, is quite a few. Read on to find out more ...

We all use emojis and acronyms to bring some light hearted fun to our text messages – and for the most part it’s harmless fun. But that’s certainly not always the case. The Australian ...

To anyone that spends their working life in Brussels these acronyms are close to a lingua franca. Officially there are 24 ...

This is unfortunate, because not only is the acronym a sin against the English language, it is also terribly unpopular within the very communities it purportedly represents. We should trash it and ...

Some regard the use of acronyms with suspicion ... Think, she says, of the fact that the EU has to translate not only from English into 23 other languages but all those languages into each ...