Edited To Add

PB is Pottery Barn. It can be annoying, IYKWIM. <my pet peeve as it's totally unnecessary to add that.

ITT- in this thread

OP- original poster

SS- stainless steel (appliances)

I can't think of any others ATM (at the moment) but those are ones I commonly use. ;)

ORB= Oil rubbed bronze

RH= Restoration Hardware

HL= Hobby Lobby

HD=Home Depot

TKO = Totally kitchen obsessed

KAW = Kitchen at Work. Someone will use this when they've been cooking/baking in their kitchen and want to show it off and make the rest of us envious. :)

DR - dining room

LR - living room

BBB Bed, Bath & Beyond

Not acronyms but unfamiliar terms:

NKBA guidelines - National Kitchen and Bath Association which set guidelines for proper function of a kitchen such as adequate aisle width,. entrance sizes...

continent - humongous over-sized, too large island

barrier island - an island that is in between the fridge and sink/stove so that you have to walk around the island which decreases efficiency and functionality of the kitchen

WF -- Whole Foods

SOB -- scroll on by (ignore the obnoxious and irrelevant--I learned that here in KT)

OTK -- the One True Kitchen (http://ths.gardenweb.com/discussions/2698630/what-is-the-one-true-kitchen-i-want-photo-examples-please)

OTR -- Over The Range (as in microwave)

For me, ETA = Estimated time of Arrival.

ETA - estimated time of arrival

TMI too much information

BKF Bar Keeper's Friend cleanser

I love the ambiguity of the D in DH, DD, et al. It could mean Darling or Dear, but it could also mean D@#^

IRL In Real Life, but that's not just on Gardenweb

I run into some that require a visit to the urban dictionary. I never use the DH etc ones I prefer to just say husband or sister etc. On one forum the DH was for di#* head! I think that's why I decided to go with just husband lol.

LOL indeed, ravencajun. Of course sometimes DH as used in that other forum could be appropriate for our own DH's...

I must agree lol!

ETA traditionally meant (and in certain circumstances means) estimated time of arrival. However, in forums it's become "Edited to Add"....in other words, explaining why a person edited his or her post.

IMHO = In my humble opinion.

I always say 'hubby'. I don't do DH. Sometimes it could be 'damned husband" LOL. Technically it could be SO (significant other), as we aren't married. I think that's a stupid thing to call someone.

It took me quite a while to figure this one out, but FWIW, is For what it's worth.

IMHO can also mean In My Honest Opinion, which is the opposite of Humble, and Humble is sometimes used ironically, so I just go with IMO = In My Opinion and don't qualify it.

Here is a link to a really long list of them. More than I ever knew there were!

acronyms

The one I always chuckle at, not used on this forum but on others is...

IANAL. Now, what exactly does that look like it is saying to you? What it means is....

I am not a lawyer- and is used before giving legal advice to tell the person they aren't a certified lawyer. Lol

Thanks folks. ETA was becoming a True Noodle Scratcher (TNS?). I kept scrolling up to see whom the poster was responding to, whether it be someone named ETA or someone who could be abbreviated as such.

Texas.. if I were worried about giving lawyerly advice without being one -- I'd spell THAT out without resorting to acronyms!

Pillog -- back in the 80s (and rather late 70s)I was part of the science fiction community (we preferred SF over SciFi. I cared about that then, but now I don't either way) - IMHO was In My Humble Opinion, which seldom was humble. Some folks went with IMAO - In My Arrogant Opinion. Which was most often more honest...

Alas, I haven't seen a transition of the truly useful IMAO, which was in the day a feedback to IMHO, pre-Internet. POUT.

Apparently LOL is no longer in style. The correct word is now tee-hee-hee or hee-hee-hee. I won't be using it - makes me sound (look) like a giggling school girl.

SOB -- I'm afraid I can't just think "Scroll On By". My brain isn't so organized... ;)

bifenton, I've heard that, too. I will stick with LOL or similar.

Artemis, I know the people of whom you speak, and love the honesty, IMAO. which looks like a lazy shift on LMAO, which is an entirely different, though possibly concurrent, kind of thing. (Laughing Ma A** Off).

I've heard that the new "LOL" is ha-ha. Never heard tee-hee. Silly, either one, since the point is to minimize keystrokes. JK (Just Kidding) doesn't work well because it's not obvious enough, especially in lower case. Since I'm of the generation that invented :) and LOL (well...I was a kid when the sideways smilie first was sent...), I don't feel like I have to change. Like I don't try to use the slang that the kids do either. :)

Jasdip - Re DH vs. SO: I read a really fun book called That's Not English by Erin Moore, about the differences between British and American English vocabulary, and what it says about the differences in our cultures. She said that in England, people typically refer to their spouse or the person they live with, whether same or opposite sex, "partner." She points out that since people commonly use this, it actually creates privacy, because they are not announcing whether they are straight or gay or married or living together. I think that's brilliant (another Britishism). Unfortunately, in the US, if you start using partner, people will likely assume you are gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that!

Ginny, when I talk to people, I always say 'my sweetie" or his name.

When I hear Partner I immediately jump to a gay relationship. When a co-worker mentioned his partner, I immediately asked him. Before that I had no idea. Nothing about him screamed gay, and I have pretty good gay-dar.

They've been together for 13 years, and both gorgeous. Typical!! LOL

One we used here years ago was IANLKOW. It was used when telling another woman that you loved her but "in a non-lesbian kind of way". Anybody remember that? LOL I think D5 started it or at least, introduced it.

One that took me a little bit to figure out....SMH. shaking my head

I am not fond of acronyms. Marilyn thanks for translating SMH for me, I keep seeing it used on Facebook but could not figure it out. The language spoken at my job is based on acronyms. The 700 or more people I have to recruit and hire their job titles are acronyms. PC, DRO, ADRO, APC, CPS, ACPS, IO, RO, TR, SBDRO, etc along with all the other government acronyms in any document I read. I love this video by Weird Al Yankovic - Word Crimes

I don't like DH either or DS or DD or any of those that relate to family. I just say my husband or my daughter, or if whoever knows who I am talking about, I just say their names.

Jasdip - after mom passed away dad found a ladyfriend & they moved to Virginia to be together. She referred to him as her partner. SO or significant other was just not a term either wanted to use.

Marilyn - i have to say i refer to brother, dad, etc rather than say DB or DD. I don't want some to misread Darling for Dear. (I spent all my schooling years up through high school in dread of ever being addressed as Dear or Honey. It meant that i was in Serious Trouble.)

Hmm my phone won't capitalize the first person pronoun for me. My wifi is down.. i guess no one covers long weekends at frontier.