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.

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    The way the original words was pronounced doesn’t matter, or we’d pronounce “LASER” as “lah-seer”.

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      11 months ago

      The peanut butter came first, is how I see it. Seniority and the feature of the image being easily shared (or GIFted) provide all the reasons I need for how I say it.