Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. English speakers use acronyms every day: NASA, AIDS, ZIP code, and NAFTA are examples of acronyms ...
Acronyms and abbreviations are both commonly used in the English language. But interestingly, there are many of each that people don’t know the meaning of or how they originated. For the record, an ...
Many prescription abbreviations originate from Latin terms. But, pharmacists translate these into plain language on medication labels so you can understand the instructions clearly. The use of ...