I spent a few years in the Air Force before becoming a highly paid blogger. And back at the NROC, I used to need to file WCA reports whenever there was a WAM event (or, obviously, if the WAMR ...

You may say toe-may-toe and I may say toe-mah-toe, but everyone says NASA, not N.A.S.A. It's an acronym thing. My initial idea for this week’s column was to talk a bit more about abbreviations, which ...

Enterprise users have it made when searching for acronyms and their definitions because Microsoft Word’s newish Editor has that functionality built in. The rest of us have to work a bit harder to find ...

My friend Antonio recently asked me about i.e. and e.g. These Latin abbreviations, which are pretty popular in English, get confused quite a bit. It’s easy to see why. Even people who use the ...

Q: Why is “No.” the abbreviation for “number” (“No. 1 player”), when the word “number” doesn’t even have an “o” in it? — Carl Faith via email A: Many English abbreviations seem odd because they’re ...

Lifehacker Reader Scott has to explain all the acronyms in his Word documents in an attached appendix. He's learned to make Word search them out for him, and anyone can use the same trick. Here's ...