Would you care to add your country's abbreviations to a fluther glossary?

We have tons. I live in Canada and had to deal with ICBC (Insurance Corporation of British Columbia), the CRA (Canadian Revenue Agency), MVB (Motor Vehicle Branch). I’ve lived in BC (British Columbia) and AB (Alberta). My grandfather fought with the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force).

Just off the top of my head.

NSA national Security Administration
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
IRS Internal Revenue Service
IRA Individual Retirement Account

@marinelife got the ball rollling for the US abbreviations. I’ll add a few:

POTUS (President of the United States, and the inspiration for our own CWOTUS)
DMV – Department of Motor Vehicles
USAF (and USMC, USN, etc.) – United States Air Force (Marine Corps, Navy, etc.)
S&P – Standard and Poor (stock index)
NIMBY – Not in my back yard
MADD – Mothers Against Drunk Driving

Good initiative @harple!
Dutch abbreviations are probably not used much on Fluther, or in the world for that matter.
I can provide a few English ones though.

A.D. – Anno Domini / After Christ
CC – Chamber of Commerce
DIY – Do It Yourself (market)
DoB – Date of Birth
e.g. – Exempli Gratia / For Example
FCFS – First Come, First Served
H&S – Health And Safety
KISS – Keep It Short and Simple
n/a – Not Applicable
NOTA – None Of The Above
P.S. – Post Script
PTO – Patent and Trademark Office
p.t.o. – please turn over (z.o.z – zie ommezijde in Dutch)
SSN – Social Security Number
TWIC – To Whom It Concerns
VAT – Value Added Tax
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get

TY – Thank you

MSP Member of the Scottish Parliament
SNP Scottish National Party
LD Eldorado wine
HLI Highland Light Infantry

Fuck this, I don’t even remember what I had for breakfast this morning.

Here are some more US national abbreviations:

GOP. Grand Old (Republican) Party.
NBA. National Basketball Association.
NFL. National Football League.
NHL. National Honky League.
NTSB. National Transportation Safety Board.
FBI. Federal Bureau of Investigation.
USGS. United States Geological Survey
FAA. Federal Aviation Administration.
EPA. Environmental Protection Agency
USS. United States Ship.
SSA. Social Security Administration.

TwoFour

(24 case of beer)

—Canada

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FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
KKK- Ku Klux Klan.
NOW- National Organization for Women.

BS No, not bullshit. It’s Québec French for bien-être social which means welfare. We usually say something is BS, when we find something cheap, unimpressive or of low quality, based on how shitty being on welfare is, or how some people think welfare recipients suck.

It’s kind of funny that, unintentionally, it’s extremely close to what people use ’‘bullshit’’ for.

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Colomaland abbreviations

HPS Happy Brownie Sunday

BC Before cats

RT River time

IDGPS I defy GPS

WTTOMB Whose that tripping over my bridge?

DNLTCOL Do not leave the circle of light

DWTDAG Don’t wake the donkeys and geese

There are just too many to list for the United States (US). Even among Americans many of them don’t know some of the abreviations. People who live near DC (the country’s capital) use so many acronyms, especially for all the agencies of the federal government:

NIH national institutes of health
NCI national cancer Institute
FDA food and drug administration
NIST national institute of science and technology
NIMH national institute of mental health
HHS health and human services
FBI federal bureau of investigations
CIA central intelligence agency
There are more…

Then we have the time zones:
CT, CST, CDT Central Time, Central Standard Time, Central Daylight Savings Time
ET, EST, EDT Eastern Time, etc.
MT, MST, MDT mountain time, etc.
PC, PST, PDT, pacific time, etc.
I think of GMT as being international, since all time zones are usually an addition or subtraction from GMT time.

Abreviations for all 50 states plus DC. Do you really want me to list them all?

United States is US or USA.

One of my mom’s favorites is FF as in who gives a flying fu$&.

Probably we should all write out the full name or word intially in an answer, and then can switch to abbreviations later in the paragraph.

WTF

English speaking nations but I think we all know what it means.

RSPCA
RSPB
NSPCC
AA automobile, not alcoholics.
RAC
BBC
ITV
WBA
QPR those final two being football teams.

USA Here.

MTV (Music Television)

J-LO (Jennifer Lopez)

USPS (United States Postal Service)

WIC (food subsidies for Women with Infant Children)

KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant)

NCIS (Navy Crime Scene Investigation)

JAG (Judge Advocate General, military legal counsel)

EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil, made famous by cooking host Rachel Ray)

O (Orgasmarasma!)

CDC (Center for Disease Control)

ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act)

FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)

HBO (Home Box Office, a movie channel)

TOT (Transitory Occupation Tax)

BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit)

M*A*S*H (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital)

RV (Recreational Vehicle, motorhome)

ATV (All Terrain Vehicle, a 3 or 4 wheeled vehicle for riding on sand and dirt)

ATM (Automated Teller Machine)

B & B (Bead and Breakfast)

BYOB (Bring Your Own Bottle)

STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease)

DNC (Democratic National Comittee)

LDS (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Mormons)

OTC (Over The Counter, medications in which no prescription is necessary, like Aspirin)

QVC (Quality, Value Convenience, this is a home shopping network channel)

NYPD (New York Police Department)

DT’s (Detox symptoms)

HPV (Human Papilloma Virus, the one that causes some cervical cancers)

MPG (Miles Per Gallon)

MPH (Miles Per Hour)

GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders)

PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)

LGBT (Lesbian Gay Bisexual & Transgendered community)

V8 (refers to a car with 8 cylinders that are arranged in a V pattern, with 4 on each side, and the othr meaning is a brand name for a drink that has 8 Vegetables, at least originally it did, that tastes mostly like tomato juice)

STNG (Star Trek the Next Generation)

Theres already been a lot of general UK ones so I’m doing some for Manchester:

MCFC: Manchester City Football Club
MUFC: Manchester United Football Club
MEN: Manchester Evening News
MCC: Manchester City Council
GMP: Greater Manchester Police
MMU: Manchester Metropolitan University
RMCA: Royal Manchester College of Music
MRI: Manchester Royal Infirmary

Oh, I can do Norway:

NAV – National arbeids og velferdsetaten (it’s our unemployment office, and oh, so much more)
EØS – europeiske økonomiske samarbeidsområde (european economic cooperation group)
UDI – Utlendingsdirektoratet (it’s where residency and asylum seekers and people seeking citizenship and work permits go to wait in long lines and fill in long forms only to be told they have done it wrong and redo it and wait at the back of the line again.)
UFFA – this one deserves a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFFA (Sadly, the house burnt down last winter but the group is still active.)

that will do…for now.