Thread: Acronyms Poll

OK - looks like it works now.
Time to vote and leave an acronym.
Cheers - Matti

how about we use the kings english and just say the words, write the words, use the words.
abbreviations **** me.
if you want to say 'centre diff lock' then say it.
it may make some difference in typing, like a poofteenth of time, and it may save some printer ink if you are printing it, but at the end of the day, all that you are doing is being lazy.
keep english words in use, avoid abbreviation as much as you can.

Except having a glossary of abbreviations is good to use as a reference when looking at a tech document that's full of them...

Land Rover Civilian

A.F. - Across flats (bolt size)
A.B.D.C. - After bottom dead centre
A.T.D.C. - After top dead centre
a.c. - Alternating current
A - Amperes
Ah - Ampere-hour
Atm - Atmospheres


B.B.D.C. - Before bottom dead centre
B.T.D.C. - Before top dead centre
B.D.C. - Bottom dead centre
b.h.p. - Brake horse power
b.m.e.p. - Brake mean effective pressure
B.S. - British Standards

That should kick things off a bit lol


Pete

What has an acronym ever done to you Harry, they are just words, they dont like to be picked on like that Lol.

D1 or D1 = Disco 1 or 2
D110/130 = Defender 110/130
RRC = Range Rover Classic
RRS = Range Rover Sport
TDI = Turbo Direct Injection
TD5 = Turbo Diesel 5 cylinder (I think, Dave will correct me if Im wrong)
MPI = Multi point injection

There's a few for you Dave, Harry may be able to understand a few now, when you get the list happening, maybe get it made sticky to make it easy to find.

so, you have posted the well known ones, that have an accepted place in engineering, and vehicle model names, that's ok, but let's not make up more like the yanks like to do.

Originally Posted by harry

how about we use the kings english and just say the words, write the words, use the words.
abbreviations **** me.
if you want to say 'centre diff lock' then say it.
it may make some difference in typing, like a poofteenth of time, and it may save some printer ink if you are printing it, but at the end of the day, all that you are doing is being lazy.
keep english words in use, avoid abbreviation as much as you can.

But what of SNAFU and FUBAR and FIGJAM ?


And for those who dont know what a poofteenth is - it's 1/2 of 3/8 of **** all !

Don't see this one much here, but useful on the web -

CSW - County Station Wagon = upmarket UK specification Series III/110/90/Defender

TLA - three letter acronym. E.g. CSW is a TLA.

Originally Posted by VladTepes

But what of SNAFU and FUBAR and FIGJAM ?


And for those who dont know what a poofteenth is - it's 1/2 of 3/8 of **** all !

4/5th's of 5/8th of **** all.