Even more ridiculous acronyms and abbreviations

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[swrural]

Just to drive our mods (moderators) nuts, I came across a new one this morning

 - WRATH

This stands for Western Rail Access To Heathrow project.  Not a connection of meanings I would have opted for!!   

[Chris from Nailsea]

See also http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?topic=9171.msg127576#msg127576 

I'm sorry, swrural, but we on the admin team here are all volunteers, giving up our time freely for the benefit of the wider forum, and we really shouldn't be expected to add each and every abbreviation or acronym or initialisation that might appear just once on this forum to our own list of 'acronyms and abbreviations'. 

[swrural]

No need to apologise Chris,  I wasn't asking for that, after all.

Very grateful for the work done by you good people, an excellent site with not too many contributors who can't spell.  There is another site, indeed one to which I was introduced here, that is actually painful to read.  It got so bad, due to the numerous errors and howlers, that I started to wonder whether my old-fashioned spelling had been overtaken by 'nu-english' and we oldies had not been informed of what was now being taught in schools and accepted as the new norm.

Worse still, I have actually started to doubt whether words such as 'dependent, say, ought to be 'dependant' and so on.  Public Inquiries are public enquiries.  Those examples are mild ones.  As for 'their, there, they're' mix ups!  Aargh!   Many, many more examples have me scratching my head for a few seconds.   What are they teaching nowadays?  Are they teaching nowadays?

Now, that feels better.   Thanks ChrisfN.    

[Chris from Nailsea]

No need to apologise Chris,  I wasn't asking for that, after all.

If that is the case, Howard, may I ask why you posted thus:

Just to drive our mods (moderators) nuts, I came across a new one this morning ...

[swrural]

I thought it was funny and I thought you would too.  We've been having fun about abbreviations (at least that is what I thought the jocularity was about). 

I'm not getting on very well here at the moment so I will go quiet.

I asked for my other post to be removed as it offended some people.  They got completely and totally wrong what I was writing about but these things are received subjectively and there is nothing the originator can do about that.

Anyway it was very interesting to be a member and very amusing too.  Thank you.

[grahame]

I'm not getting on very well here at the moment so I will go quiet.

My bolding.  I think the admin / moderator team will appreciate a short break, thank you. A noticable proportion of our workload of late has been looking after topics such as this one.  We look forward to seeing you posting in the future - but we do need to find solutions and move on now (and in the future) from topics which are causing issues.