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I thought i'd start a list of abbreviations, most of us use them and I know how grateful I was for a list when I first started posting on forums a few years ago. Any suggestions please post them below and i'll add them to this post so they're altogether.

Some are general and others are knitty

Updated 06/08/09

BF - Boyfriend
BIL - Brother-in-law
BTW - By The Way
DD - Darling Daughter
DH - Darling Husband
DIL - Daughter-in-law
DS - Darling Son
DW - Darling Wife
FIL - Father-in-law
FO - Finished Object
FYI - For Your Information
GF - Girlfriend
GOM - Grumpy Old Man
HTG - Honest To God
HTH - Hope This Helps
KIP - Knit In Public
LK - Lets Knit magazine
LOL - Laugh Out Loud
LYS - Local Yarn Shop/Store
MIL - Mother-in-law
NP - No Problem
OH - Other Half
OMG - Oh My God/Gosh/Goodness
OT - Other Topic or Off Topic
PG - Please God
PM - Private Message
PMSL - Peed Myself Laughing
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
SIL - Sister-in-law
TG - Thank God
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
TTYL - Talk To You Later
TY - Thank You
UFO - UnFinished Object
WIP - Work In Progress
WNW - We're Not Worthy

FYI - for your information
OMG - oh my god/gosh/goodness
BF - boyfriend
GF - girlfriend
UFO - unfinished object
KIP - knit in public
LOL - laugh out loud
pmsl - peed myself laughing
TTYL - talk to you later
NP - no problem

Thank you buffy and darkangel It was the ones like DD that had me flummoxed and some of the others too. I can post in confidence now (and understand everyone else)

I was wondering what LMAO was but was too embaressed to ask my 12 year old and show my ignorance
Thanks for that

buffyflump - 05 August 2009 09:39 PM

GOM - Grumpy Old Man (this was a new one on me when I started here )

And there was me thinking it was God O'Mighty .. Least that's what my bf likes to think he is sometimes
(ok ok I know it's almighty ^^)

New to forums myself, but not to chat rooms, so I just took a random guess as most of the abbv's using what was previous and after in posts, only one I hadn't sussed was GOM haha!

moosick - 06 August 2009 01:26 AM

buffyflump - 05 August 2009 09:39 PM

GOM - Grumpy Old Man (this was a new one on me when I started here )

And there was me thinking it was God O'Mighty .. Least that's what my bf likes to think he is sometimes
(ok ok I know it's almighty ^^)

New to forums myself, but not to chat rooms, so I just took a random guess as most of the abbv's using what was previous and after in posts, only one I hadn't sussed was GOM haha!

Hah - In my OH's case it could very well be God O' Mighty at times but its normally just grumpy old man
Good thread Buffy!

SIL - sister-in-law

Only other one I can think of

BFN - bye for now
HTG - honest to god
TG - thank god
PG - please god

(soory about the religious overtones there, I'm not a bible basher or anything!!!)

Great thread, ROFLMAO was like chinese to me. My OH deffo would love to be referred to as god almighty!!

In texts to my niece we use WNW a lot - we're not worthy

IMHO - in my honest opinion
brb - be right back
g2g - go to go (ok so the last 2 we're not so likely to use on here but hey-ho)

And there was me thinking I'd coined the abbreviation GOM

brilliant thread buffy...i'd guessed some myself and suzie, RC and katy told me some of them...i have to admit, i have called my hubby a GOM a few times and he asked what it was...so i told him...i don't think he was too happy TBH(to be honest)...hahaha!!!
actually, i've been told that i say "i have to admit"(IHTA) quite a lot... so i suppose you could possibly add that 1 in as well (it also means that i don't have to keep typing it out fully...hahaha!!! )

IMHO - in my honest opinion
IMO - in my opinion
IM - instant message
SEX - stash entrichment expedition (LOL)
KIP - knit in public

DarkAngelKnits - 06 August 2009 08:39 PM

SEX - stash entrichment expedition (LOL)

That's great!!!

I know, I cant remember which book it came from but it cracks me up everytime

anniebabes - 06 August 2009 04:10 PM

And there was me thinking I'd coined the abbreviation GOM

I'd not seen it until I saw it here so maybe you did

Hey Annie you were the first I'd seen use GOM too and Dark I like the idea of SEX

Bumped up to help anyone new

Sorry, forgot to do it last night