Tag: ACRONYM

Young technophiles may believe that catchy abbreviations, acronyms, and emoticons are new developments, arising because of the character limitations of certain modern means of communication like text messaging and tweeting. But the satirical newspaper 'Puck' actually published the first documented emoticons in 1881, and Abraham Lincoln may have even used one when writing a speech. A joint ...

Parents are used to monitoring what their kids watch on TV, what video games they play and where they go online. But, who thought you'd ever need a V-chip for homework? The parents of Jackson Middle School sixth graders in Grand Prairie, Texas, received a shock recently when the kids came home with a rather naughty math assignment. For homework, they'd been asked by the teacher to decode ...