‘What’s an acronym many people know of but don’t know what it stands for?’ – 23 abbreviations that will leave you FUBAR

13.

‘MRI stands for magnetic resonance imaging, but that is a name made just to not scare people. The actual technology is NMR, or nuclear magnetic resonance. People hear ‘nuclear’ and think radiation, so MRI was coined to be less frightening.’
–bythog

14.

‘A common one is GIF most people use it daily but don’t know it stands for Graphics Interchange Format.’
–Busy_Prize_950

15.

”WWW’ is longer and more difficult to pronounce than the words ‘World Wide Web’.’
–Intelligent_Gold3619

16.

‘HARIBO gummy bears are invented by HAns RIegel from BOnn.’
–dschoni

17.

‘When my daughter’s hamster died, my mother wrote her a note, ‘I’m sorry to hear that Buster died. LOL, Grandma’.
She thought it meant ‘Lots of Love’.’
–Ok_Bar_2180

18.

‘ASICS (shoes) = Latin phrase Anima Sana In Corpore Sano (‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’).’
–JpnDude

19.

‘Répondez s‘il vous plaît. French for ‘please respond’.’
–RoccStrongo

20.

‘A.D. = Anno Domini (‘In the year of our Lord’) NOT ‘After Death’.’
–writer_dray

21.

‘Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.’
–NegativeKarmaBots

22.

‘I work with a lot of pastors. One Church had these enormous 40 foot tall banners hanging on their building. The first letter of each word was in Bolden and in a slightly different font. The three banners were vertical:

Discipleship Truth Fellowship

So across the top of their church, it said ‘DTF’. I think somebody brought it to their attention so they decided to change the first one to ‘Worship’. So the went from DTF to WTF.

That’s why it’s a good idea to have a young person on your team. They were unaware.’
–shameonyousavannah

23.

‘What’s ET short for? Cuz he’s only got little legs! I’ll get my coat.’
–dinkleberry-uberwang

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