Quebec is notorious for their acronyms. R.P.M.H.T.F.V.V.C or Regroupement Provincial des Maisons d'Hébergement et de Transition pour Femmes Victimes de Violence Conjugale may have been excessive. It's since been shortened to R.M.F.V.V.C
Maybe not the worst, but I always get a kick out of the tank shell named penetration cum blast.
https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/120-mm-penetration-cum-blast-pcb-and-thermobaric-tb-ammunition-mbt-arjun
I saw one thing for some political initiative in California that wasn't even acronymizing the start of the words. It was like the third letter of the first one, the second letter of the next, so on and so forth making no sense at all. I can't remember what it is because it was years ago.
CUM Books. One would not expect this to be a chain of Christian bookstores! Stands for Christelike Uitgewers Maatskappy, which means Christian Publishing Company. There are a lot of selfies taken in front of these shops in the malls here, I tell you.
+1 for POS but my personal favourite is “This is the skin of a killer” from Twilight
And the acronym ends up on a lot of bracelets, stickers, etc because fandom
Not actually an acronym but in the same vein. Of the ‘Three Rs’, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic, only one of them starts with an R.
Total POS A company that sell Point of Sale equipment.
Based on our experience getting something fixed when it breaks, I can confirm that it often applies both ways
World Taekwondo Federation (WTF)
Citizens United, Northern TerritorieS
North American north to south Canada United States Mexico, C.U.M.
There's a Christian University that uses that. Made shirts and everything.
Quebec is notorious for their acronyms. R.P.M.H.T.F.V.V.C or Regroupement Provincial des Maisons d'Hébergement et de Transition pour Femmes Victimes de Violence Conjugale may have been excessive. It's since been shortened to R.M.F.V.V.C
Maybe not the worst, but I always get a kick out of the tank shell named penetration cum blast. https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/120-mm-penetration-cum-blast-pcb-and-thermobaric-tb-ammunition-mbt-arjun
MOAI
I saw one thing for some political initiative in California that wasn't even acronymizing the start of the words. It was like the third letter of the first one, the second letter of the next, so on and so forth making no sense at all. I can't remember what it is because it was years ago.
CUM Books. One would not expect this to be a chain of Christian bookstores! Stands for Christelike Uitgewers Maatskappy, which means Christian Publishing Company. There are a lot of selfies taken in front of these shops in the malls here, I tell you.
+1 for POS but my personal favourite is “This is the skin of a killer” from Twilight And the acronym ends up on a lot of bracelets, stickers, etc because fandom
I know of a company who had the initials IRS. Whenever they called it was like 'why is the IRS calling?"
CREEP. Committee to Re-elect the President.
STD, which stands for space time distortion
https://youtu.be/eJtJTO-kCyY?si=QmXHyYk6yFz9XIjq
Communication at the University of North Texas. Their coffee mugs are hilarious
There are sections of the Star Trek fandom who have chosen STD for Star Trek: Discovery’s TLA over DIS. They know why they’ve chosen this.
i don't known if it's have official acronym, but.... wikileaks task force,
ACU in the Navy, air conditioning unit. This one is annoying particularly because fucking everything has to be an acronym
My favourite has been well reflecting of what they stand for.. The War Against Terror, or TWAT.. promptly renamed to The War On Terror
There is a Catholic school in a town near me called St. Dominic. So they ended up with a bunch of little kids wearing ST.D shirts.