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Up-to-date and containing over 20,000 abbreviations and acronyms, this dictionary is arranged by category, to ensure that the enquirer after specific information will be led quickly to the required answer. It also allows the interested browser to explore the labyrinth of abbreviations and acronyms from QUANGOs, civil titles, the Church, military ranks, music and fine arts to science and technology, crafts, sports and pastimes. The "Classification and Identification" section covers a mine of information including mathematics, money, vehicle marks, postcodes and aircraft and shipping markings.

Like it or not, abbreviations and acronyms are now an essential ingredient of everyday life. Since the first edition of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms was published in mid-1997, the compilers have been diligently collecting further examples from many walks of life - including, for example, such gems as DISH: Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (the result of eating too much protein which causes the vertebrae to fuse, aka Friar Tuck syndrome), GROLIES: Guardian Readers Of Limited Intelligence in Ethnic Skirts, IYDLAOTMTFOAHABM: If You Don't Like Anything On The Menu, Then F*** Off And Have A Big Mac (seen at 'The Talkhouse', Stanton St.John, Oxford), and ROMP: Radical Office Movement Policy (at Pearl Assurance, where moving from one desk to another is alleged to reduce clutter).