''This article describes ''three-letter acronyms''. For other uses of the term TLA, see TLA (disambiguation)''. TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) is the most popular type of acronym in computing and telecom terminology and Internet slang, and is also very common in general language. There is some disagreement about whether abbreviations like ''TLA'' actually constitute acronym (see acronym and initialism), and this has led to the increasing use of the word ''abbreviation'' as opposed to ''acronym'' in expanding the term. However, "three-letter acronym" is the older and more frequently cited term. == Background == "TLA" is a TLA itself; the term was almost certainly coined with a certain degree of self-referential humor in mind. Likewise, a four-letter abbreviation is sometimes known as a FLAB (Four Letter ABbreviation), an ETLA or XTLA (Extended TLA), an LFLA (Longer Four Letter Abbreviation) or a TLA/E (TLA/Extended) - although all these are far less common than TLA. In the same vein, VLFLA is a Very Long Five Letter Abbreviation and DETLA is a Doubly-Extended Three Letter Abbreviation. TLAs became common in the United States during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who is frequently referred to as FDR). Terms from this period included ''NRA'' for National Recovery Administration, ''CCC'' for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and ''TVA'' for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Detractors of President Roosevelt's policies called the new agencies "alphabet soup." According to acronyms.com, "TLA" (the eponymous TLA) was coined by Jeff Kelley who worked at the time at IBM, a company whose name itself was a TLA. Jeff Kelley (a.k.a. John F. Kelley, Ph.D., CPE) reports vaguely recalling that the date on which he coined the term was around 1985. == Description == Using only upper-case letters, there are 26³ = 17576 possible three-letter abbreviations, and probably most of them are already used in some context. If numbers, special characters, or case-sensitivity are allowed, even more TLAs can be created. Many TLAs have more than one meaning: TLA itself is also a TLA for the [http://www.theateroflivingarts.net Theater of the Living Arts]. There are many TLAs with more than 10 meanings (for example, SDI has at least 36 meanings in the English language). Furthermore, many abbreviations have more than one expansion with the same meaning. For example GCC was first 'GNU C Compiler', and later 'GNU Compiler Collection'. (See also backronym.) In the MS-DOS operating system for personal computers, because only three-letter file extensions (usually denoting the file type) were allowed, many longer abbreviations were shortened to three letters (for example JPEG to JPG, HTML to HTM), and many of these are still used. DOS itself is a TLA for 'Disk Operating System' as well. Many abbreviations, some of them TLAs, come from the shortened names of Usenet groups. For example, ''PRA'' for ''pl.rec.anime'', or ''AFU'' for ''alt.folklore.urban''. ==Usage== TLAs are typically pronunciation as initialisms (i.e., ''Tee Ell Ay'') and written in all capital letters. Some, however are acronyms, and are pronouned as words (e.g., RAM). TLAs are pluralized by adding ''s'' (as in TLA''s''). The possessive is formed by adding ''apostrophe s'' (as in TLA's). Increasing numbers of TLAs, and other abbreviations, are showing RAS_syndrome, in which usually the last of the abbreviated words is added to the TLA (for example, ''ATM machine'', ''PIN number'', ''HIV virus''). Purists recommend avoiding RAS syndrome, especially in formal writing such as Technical writer. ==Common categories of TLAs== *chemicals: Polyvinyl chloride, Polyethylene_terephthalate, TCE *corporations: BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, TDK *education: USC, NYU, MIT *banking: Automatic teller machine, EFT-POS, PIN *time zones: Greenwich Mean Time, UTC, Daylight saving time *sports: National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, International Olympic Committee *individuals: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt *politics: Non-governmental organization, Republican Party (United States), Democratic National Committee, New Democratic Party, African National Congress, Pan-Africanist Congress *government: the American United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Central Intelligence Agency, the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, Ministry of Defense, MI5, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Intelligence Service, HRH *military: Special Air Service, Armoured personnel carrier, Prisoner of war *paramilitary: Palestine Liberation Organization, ETA, New People's Army, Provisional IRA, Active Service Unit of the IRA, various Northern Ireland Loyalist groups, the Colombian left-wing ELN *medicine: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Electrocardiogram, EMT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, premature ventricular contraction, transesophageal echocardiogram, HIV *drugs: Acetylsalicylic acid, THC, Ecstasy (drug), LSD, phencyclidine *cities: Compton, California, Long Beach, California, Atlanta *computers **file types: Portable Network Graphics, Graphics Interchange Format, portable document format **hardware: Central processing unit, Floating Point Unit, Random Access Memory, Read-only memory, Hard disk, Floppy disk **software: GNU Compiler Collection, Gimp Tool Kit, KDE **software licences: GNU General Public License, Mozilla Public License **operating systems: GNU's Not Unix, Berkeley Software Distribution, disk operating system **programming languages: AWK, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, Structured Query Language **communications protocols: File Transfer Protocol, Internet relay chat, Transmission Control Protocol, Secure Sockets Layer, AOL Instant Messenger or America Online Instant Messenger, ICQ A significant number of TLAs come from various codes: *IATA airport codes: Los Angeles International Airport, MSQ, San Francisco International Airport, Nagoya Airport (see Lists of TLAs, below) *ISO 639 (language names): Arabic language, English language, Spanish language *ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (country codes): United States, Serbia and Montenegro, United Arab Emirates *ISO 4217 (currency codes): Ruble, United States dollar *SIL codes for languages: ENG, FRN, SWD, BQT *International Olympic Committee country codes: FRA, GBR, GER, JAP (see Lists of TLAs) *Association of American Railroads railroad reporting marks: CNW, CSX, GBW ==Lists of TLAs== *TLAs from AAA to DZZ *TLAs from EAA to HZZ *TLAs from IAA to LZZ *TLAs from MAA to PZZ *TLAs from QAA to TZZ *TLAs from UAA to XZZ *TLAs from YAA to ZZZ *List of airports (which are all TLAs) *List of IOC country codes (also all TLAs) ==See also== * four-character idiom * list of acronyms and initialisms * list of all two-letter combinations * list of computing and IT abbreviations * list of three-letter broadcast callsigns in the United States Abbreviations
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== oh joy == an acronym to describe an acronym? oh, btw /TLA (three-letter abbreviation or acronym)/ needs to be changed, because that implies all acronyms are TLA's User:Ilyanep User talk:Ilyanep 05:15, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) Silly question- do we need a page to disambiguate TLA, since there are other things that use these initials? -User:Finn-Zoltan 20:44, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Not a silly question. I would answer yes. --User:Heron 21:40, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Evidence for my claim that "acronym" is older and more common: == In support of "three letter acronym" being older: * [http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=10&q=tla+%22three+letter+abbreviation%22&qt_s=Search+Groups&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1991] Earliest Google groups hit for "Three letter abbreviation" is Jan 3 1990 * [http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=10&q=tla+%22three+letter+acronym%22&qt_s=Search+Groups&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1985] Earliest Google groups hit for "Three letter acronym" is Sep 18 1984 In support of "three letter acronym" being more common: * [http://www.google.com/search?q=%2BTLA+%22three+letter+acronym%22] 16,400 Google hits for +TLA "three letter acronym" * [http://www.google.com/search?q=%2BTLA+%22three+letter+abbreviation%22] 1,590 Google web search hits for +TLA "three letter abbreviation" *[http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%2BTLA%20%22three%20letter%20acronym%22] 5,640 Google groups hits for +TLA "three letter acronym" *[http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%2BTLA%20%22three%20letter%20abbreviation%22] 436 Google groups hits for +TLA "three letter abbreviation" User:Nohat 21:35, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Words begining with TLA:
TLA
TLA
TLA
TLA
TLA
Tla
Tla-o-qui-aht
TLA/E
Tlacaelel
Tlacaelel
Tlachichilco
Tlachtli
Tlacique
Tlacolotl
Tlacotalpan
Tlacoyo
TLAdisambig
Tlahoun_Gessesse
Tlahtopil
Tlahtopil
Tlahuac
Tlhuac
Tlahuelpuchi
Tlahuelpuchi
Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecutli
Tlaktan
Tlalixcoyan
Tlalnelhuayocan
Tlalnepantla
Tlalnepantla,_Morelos
Tlaloc
Tlaloc
Tlloc
Tlalocan
Tlalpan
Tlalpan
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlaltizapan
Tlaltizapn
TLAM
Tlananthu
Tlapacoyan
Tlaquepaque
Tlaquiltenango
Tlaresch
Tlarson
Tlarson
Tlas
TLAs_from_AAA_to_DZZ
TLAs_from_AAA_to_DZZ
TLAs_from_EAA_to_HZZ
TLAs_from_EAA_to_HZZ
TLAs_from_IAA_to_LZZ
TLAs_from_MAA_to_PZZ
TLAs_from_QAA_to_TZZ
TLAs_from_UAA_to_XZZ
TLAs_from_YAA_to_ZZZ
Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco_massacre
Tlatelolco_massacre
Tlatenanco_massacre
Tlatoani
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala,_Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala_(city)
Tlaxcala_(state)
Tlaxcala_(Tlaxcala)
Tlaxcala_City
Tlaxcala_State
Tlayacapan
Tlazolteotl
Tlazolteotl_Ixcuiname
TLA_(disambiguation)
TLA
''This article describes ''three-letter acronyms''. For other uses of the term TLA, see TLA (disambiguation)''. TLA (Three-Letter Acronym) is the most popular type of acronym in computing and telecom terminology and Internet slang, and is also very common in general language. There is some disagreement about whether abbreviations like ''TLA'' actually constitute acronym (see acronym and initialism), and this has led to the increasing use of the word ''abbreviation'' as opposed to ''acronym'' in expanding the term. However, "three-letter acronym" is the older and more frequently cited term. == Background == "TLA" is a TLA itself; the term was almost certainly coined with a certain degree of self-referential humor in mind. Likewise, a four-letter abbreviation is sometimes known as a FLAB (Four Letter ABbreviation), an ETLA or XTLA (Extended TLA), an LFLA (Longer Four Letter Abbreviation) or a TLA/E (TLA/Extended) - although all these are far less common than TLA. In the same vein, VLFLA is a Very Long Five Letter Abbreviation and DETLA is a Doubly-Extended Three Letter Abbreviation. TLAs became common in the United States during the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who is frequently referred to as FDR). Terms from this period included ''NRA'' for National Recovery Administration, ''CCC'' for the Civilian Conservation Corps, and ''TVA'' for the Tennessee Valley Authority. Detractors of President Roosevelt's policies called the new agencies "alphabet soup." According to acronyms.com, "TLA" (the eponymous TLA) was coined by Jeff Kelley who worked at the time at IBM, a company whose name itself was a TLA. Jeff Kelley (a.k.a. John F. Kelley, Ph.D., CPE) reports vaguely recalling that the date on which he coined the term was around 1985. == Description == Using only upper-case letters, there are 26³ = 17576 possible three-letter abbreviations, and probably most of them are already used in some context. If numbers, special characters, or case-sensitivity are allowed, even more TLAs can be created. Many TLAs have more than one meaning: TLA itself is also a TLA for the [http://www.theateroflivingarts.net Theater of the Living Arts]. There are many TLAs with more than 10 meanings (for example, SDI has at least 36 meanings in the English language). Furthermore, many abbreviations have more than one expansion with the same meaning. For example GCC was first 'GNU C Compiler', and later 'GNU Compiler Collection'. (See also backronym.) In the MS-DOS operating system for personal computers, because only three-letter file extensions (usually denoting the file type) were allowed, many longer abbreviations were shortened to three letters (for example JPEG to JPG, HTML to HTM), and many of these are still used. DOS itself is a TLA for 'Disk Operating System' as well. Many abbreviations, some of them TLAs, come from the shortened names of Usenet groups. For example, ''PRA'' for ''pl.rec.anime'', or ''AFU'' for ''alt.folklore.urban''. ==Usage== TLAs are typically pronunciation as initialisms (i.e., ''Tee Ell Ay'') and written in all capital letters. Some, however are acronyms, and are pronouned as words (e.g., RAM). TLAs are pluralized by adding ''s'' (as in TLA''s''). The possessive is formed by adding ''apostrophe s'' (as in TLA's). Increasing numbers of TLAs, and other abbreviations, are showing RAS_syndrome, in which usually the last of the abbreviated words is added to the TLA (for example, ''ATM machine'', ''PIN number'', ''HIV virus''). Purists recommend avoiding RAS syndrome, especially in formal writing such as Technical writer. ==Common categories of TLAs== *chemicals: Polyvinyl chloride, Polyethylene_terephthalate, TCE *corporations: BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Cable News Network, IBM, Digital Equipment Corporation, TDK *education: USC, NYU, MIT *banking: Automatic teller machine, EFT-POS, PIN *time zones: Greenwich Mean Time, UTC, Daylight saving time *sports: National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, National Hockey League, International Olympic Committee *individuals: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George W. Bush, Franklin D. Roosevelt *politics: Non-governmental organization, Republican Party (United States), Democratic National Committee, New Democratic Party, African National Congress, Pan-Africanist Congress *government: the American United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Energy, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Central Intelligence Agency, the United Kingdom Crown Prosecution Service, Ministry of Defense, MI5, Secret Intelligence Service, Secret Intelligence Service, HRH *military: Special Air Service, Armoured personnel carrier, Prisoner of war *paramilitary: Palestine Liberation Organization, ETA, New People's Army, Provisional IRA, Active Service Unit of the IRA, various Northern Ireland Loyalist groups, the Colombian left-wing ELN *medicine: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, Electrocardiogram, EMT, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, premature ventricular contraction, transesophageal echocardiogram, HIV *drugs: Acetylsalicylic acid, THC, Ecstasy (drug), LSD, phencyclidine *cities: Compton, California, Long Beach, California, Atlanta *computers **file types: Portable Network Graphics, Graphics Interchange Format, portable document format **hardware: Central processing unit, Floating Point Unit, Random Access Memory, Read-only memory, Hard disk, Floppy disk **software: GNU Compiler Collection, Gimp Tool Kit, KDE **software licences: GNU General Public License, Mozilla Public License **operating systems: GNU's Not Unix, Berkeley Software Distribution, disk operating system **programming languages: AWK, PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, Structured Query Language **communications protocols: File Transfer Protocol, Internet relay chat, Transmission Control Protocol, Secure Sockets Layer, AOL Instant Messenger or America Online Instant Messenger, ICQ A significant number of TLAs come from various codes: *IATA airport codes: Los Angeles International Airport, MSQ, San Francisco International Airport, Nagoya Airport (see Lists of TLAs, below) *ISO 639 (language names): Arabic language, English language, Spanish language *ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 (country codes): United States, Serbia and Montenegro, United Arab Emirates *ISO 4217 (currency codes): Ruble, United States dollar *SIL codes for languages: ENG, FRN, SWD, BQT *International Olympic Committee country codes: FRA, GBR, GER, JAP (see Lists of TLAs) *Association of American Railroads railroad reporting marks: CNW, CSX, GBW ==Lists of TLAs== *TLAs from AAA to DZZ *TLAs from EAA to HZZ *TLAs from IAA to LZZ *TLAs from MAA to PZZ *TLAs from QAA to TZZ *TLAs from UAA to XZZ *TLAs from YAA to ZZZ *List of airports (which are all TLAs) *List of IOC country codes (also all TLAs) ==See also== * four-character idiom * list of acronyms and initialisms * list of all two-letter combinations * list of computing and IT abbreviations * list of three-letter broadcast callsigns in the United States Abbreviations
TLA
Hi!
TLA
TLA
TLA
== oh joy == an acronym to describe an acronym? oh, btw /TLA (three-letter abbreviation or acronym)/ needs to be changed, because that implies all acronyms are TLA's User:Ilyanep User talk:Ilyanep 05:15, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) Silly question- do we need a page to disambiguate TLA, since there are other things that use these initials? -User:Finn-Zoltan 20:44, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) :Not a silly question. I would answer yes. --User:Heron 21:40, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC) == Evidence for my claim that "acronym" is older and more common: == In support of "three letter acronym" being older: * [http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=10&q=tla+%22three+letter+abbreviation%22&qt_s=Search+Groups&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1991] Earliest Google groups hit for "Three letter abbreviation" is Jan 3 1990 * [http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&num=10&q=tla+%22three+letter+acronym%22&qt_s=Search+Groups&safe=off&as_drrb=b&as_mind=1&as_minm=1&as_miny=1981&as_maxd=1&as_maxm=1&as_maxy=1985] Earliest Google groups hit for "Three letter acronym" is Sep 18 1984 In support of "three letter acronym" being more common: * [http://www.google.com/search?q=%2BTLA+%22three+letter+acronym%22] 16,400 Google hits for +TLA "three letter acronym" * [http://www.google.com/search?q=%2BTLA+%22three+letter+abbreviation%22] 1,590 Google web search hits for +TLA "three letter abbreviation" *[http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%2BTLA%20%22three%20letter%20acronym%22] 5,640 Google groups hits for +TLA "three letter acronym" *[http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=%2BTLA%20%22three%20letter%20abbreviation%22] 436 Google groups hits for +TLA "three letter abbreviation" User:Nohat 21:35, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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TA | TB | TC | TD | TE | TF | TG | TH | TI | TJ | TK | TL | TŁ | TM | TN | TO | TP | TR | TS | TU | TW | TX | TY | TZ |Words begining with TLA:
TLA
TLA
TLA
TLA
TLA
Tla
Tla-o-qui-aht
TLA/E
Tlacaelel
Tlacaelel
Tlachichilco
Tlachtli
Tlacique
Tlacolotl
Tlacotalpan
Tlacoyo
TLAdisambig
Tlahoun_Gessesse
Tlahtopil
Tlahtopil
Tlahuac
Tlhuac
Tlahuelpuchi
Tlahuelpuchi
Tlahuixcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli
Tlahuizcalpantecutli
Tlaktan
Tlalixcoyan
Tlalnelhuayocan
Tlalnepantla
Tlalnepantla,_Morelos
Tlaloc
Tlaloc
Tlloc
Tlalocan
Tlalpan
Tlalpan
Tlaltecuhtli
Tlaltizapan
Tlaltizapn
TLAM
Tlananthu
Tlapacoyan
Tlaquepaque
Tlaquiltenango
Tlaresch
Tlarson
Tlarson
Tlas
TLAs_from_AAA_to_DZZ
TLAs_from_AAA_to_DZZ
TLAs_from_EAA_to_HZZ
TLAs_from_EAA_to_HZZ
TLAs_from_IAA_to_LZZ
TLAs_from_MAA_to_PZZ
TLAs_from_QAA_to_TZZ
TLAs_from_UAA_to_XZZ
TLAs_from_YAA_to_ZZZ
Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco
Tlatelolco_massacre
Tlatelolco_massacre
Tlatenanco_massacre
Tlatoani
Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala,_Tlaxcala
Tlaxcala_(city)
Tlaxcala_(state)
Tlaxcala_(Tlaxcala)
Tlaxcala_City
Tlaxcala_State
Tlayacapan
Tlazolteotl
Tlazolteotl_Ixcuiname
TLA_(disambiguation)
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