The 'E' Type Forum

IIRC, IMHO, and so on and so forth. I presume they are short for something, but they never came up in my school lessons.

Does anybody have a dictionary for all the various abbreviations.

Tony

Hi Tony,

I don't have a dictionary but IIRC, IIRC stands for 'If I remember correctly' and IMHO, 'In my humble opinion'.

Regards,
Jim

Here's the A-Z for you Tony. Study hard....you will be tested.

Send a long text to a young relative using as many as possible and see what they make of it!

http://www.webwasp.co.uk/define/SMS-text/a/index.php

Useful, Mark, but it didn't include two of my favorites, "SWMBO" (She Who Must Be Obeyed), y'all know who that is, and "BUFF" (Big, Ugly, Fat Fellow or something like that), referring to the Boeing B-52.

Mark

Ok, I'll join in - Everyone has heard of FORD (Fix Or Repair Daily), FIAT (Fix It Again Tomorrow) and LOTUS (Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious). Add to those TRIUMPH (Total Restoration in Umpteen Million Pieces - Help!), which was the story of my life prior to the E-type! Americans and Australians add LUCAS (Prince of Darkness) - but then they can't spell! :D

Don't Forget Jimmy Youngs' (British Radio Presenter for years and years) cheery TTFN (Ta Ta For Now) at the end of every show!

Regards,

I think I am to old to start learning new words, although having worked in the Health Service most of my life I should be use to it. We only ever spoke in abbreviations.

HSSU TSSU, SCBU, OPD SSU, GUM, HDU, ITU, MAU, SAU, CSSD and so it went on. It was like a language of our own.

So ATAMA for 4 now

I always thought FIAT stood for Fix It Again Tony
cheers
Doug

blownmiata91 wrote:I always thought FIAT stood for Fix It Again Tony
cheers
Doug

Doug,

Well that would certainly fit any Fiat my wife has ever owned

Tony

Hi guys,
have another one for FIAT For Italians Appropriate Technology...
Cheers
Peter

One from the aviation world which I particularly like is EROPS ( which is essentially the set of rules governing long range twin engined operations over water ) and which some people insist stands for Engines Running OR Panic Stations

And then of course , specially for David Jones and ( I think) Mark , what about Loads Of Trouble Usually Serious

Yes, I have a small fleet of Lots of Trouble.....and they can be!

I learnt a new one just before Christmas, when I was invited on one of the Land Rover driving / testing sessions at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire. It's really a sales pitch session, but I wanted to see if these 3 ton behemoths really could go up impossibly steep and muddy inclines with standard (low profile) tyres fitted. And they can, in a very impressive manner.

Anyway, the closing session has the sales guy enquiring about my car, and I replied that it was an old Jeep Cherokee; straight 6, 4 litre and pulls out tree stumps. He laughed and told me that Jeep stands for 'Just Enough Essential Parts', to which I replied that was probably a good thing for an off roader, and not a single component had failed in 15 years (I maybe won't be invited back). I asked about the reliability of the complex Range Rover systems, and was assured that all the old problems had gone away.

On the way home, in my chum's 6 month old Range Rover, we broke down due to some electric gremlin. My misses came and towed us back...in the old Jeep of course!

So, an acronym is needed for the Range Rover I feel!

Thought EROPS was Engines Running Or Passengers Swimming? Maybe that's why it changed to ETOPS (Extended Range Twin Operations) in 1985.

Well, EROPS has various versions, some not repeatable here. It is, as you say, now obsolete , and given the most recent moves to extend the radius to 5 hours ( !! ) , the whole idea will become largely redundant

Aviation is my business.
When my company had the BAe 146 the BAe stood for 'Bring Another Engine'. When we bought the ATP Turboprop it stood for 'Another Technical Problem'. Although it also got the nickname of the 'Penguin' as that has wings and doesn't fly !!

The more common version of EROPS in my experience (25 years civil/military aviation), is ETOPS, referring to extended operations over water with just two engines, introduced when many modern airliners moved to twin engine configuration - the "fun" acronym is similar however - Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim.

Regards,