Results: This Survey, FYI, is About Acronyms
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Here are a few famous brand acronyms. Choose only the ones that you know what the acronym stands for:
H & M: Stands for: Hennes and Mauritz
7%
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112 votes
AT&T: Stands for: American Telephone & Telegraph
50%
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839 votes
EOS: Stands for: Evolution of Smooth
4%
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71 votes
IKEA: Stands for: Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd
9%
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147 votes
M&M's: Stands for: Mars and Murries
18%
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299 votes
CVS: Stands for: Consumer Values Stores.
18%
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298 votes
AFLAC: Stands for: American Family Life Assurance Company
20%
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345 votes
GEICO: Stands for: The Government Employees Insurance Company
18%
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300 votes
ESPN: Stands for: Entertainment and Sports Programming Network
41%
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696 votes
Not Applicable
29%
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489 votes
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Here are some, you might not have thought they would fall under acronyms, given how many there are now for texting. That said, check off only your favorites: BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich
66%
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1118 votes
PB & J: Peanut Butter and Jelly
57%
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957 votes
MYOB: Mind Your Own Business
40%
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678 votes
RSVP:
49%
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819 votes
AWOL: Absent WithOut Leave
46%
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769 votes
MIA / POW: Missing In Action / Prisoner of War
46%
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779 votes
SWAT: Special Weapons And Tactics
37%
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621 votes
Navy SEALs: Navy Sea Air Land forces Read more at http://abbreviations.yourdictionary.com/articles/common-accronyms.html#LOsAvjg8zXLjI4wE.99
23%
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387 votes
DMV: Division of Motor Vehicles
42%
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701 votes
USA: United States of American
58%
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981 votes
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
48%
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806 votes
Not Applicable
15%
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258 votes
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Finally, let's wrap the acronym survey with those from the musical bands category. Choose only the ones you know: DMX: digital drum machine (though it has also been reinterpreted to mean "Dark Man X")
7%
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126 votes
AC/DC: "alternating current/direct current" electricity representing the high energy of the band
44%
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744 votes
LMFAO: Laughing My Freaking *** Off
32%
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541 votes
DJDS: DJ Dodger Stadium
2%
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35 votes
KISS: Used because it's dangerous and sexy, so says the band
19%
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328 votes
LFO: Lyte Funkie Ones
3%
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43 votes
OFWGKTA: Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All
2%
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32 votes
L7: Make an "L" with the thumb and forefinger of your left hand, then make a "7" with the thumb and forefinger of the right. Now put them together (makes a square shape)
6%
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103 votes
R.E.M.: Rapid Eye Movement
43%
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719 votes
INXS: The Official Autobiography," band manager Gary Morris states, "I saw a commercial for a brand of jam called IXL. Their ad featured a guy who said, 'I excel in all I do.' In that moment, I put all those thoughts together. The name needed to be letters, but make a word. I put the IXL jam commercial together with XTC and the concept of a band that was inaccessible and I had it: INXS."
10%
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161 votes
KMFDM: Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid (which translated from German means "No Pity for the Majority")
2%
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38 votes
W.A.S.P. : Means, nothing because no one else had chosen it
7%
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123 votes
TLC: Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas.
15%
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246 votes
Not Applicable
29%
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488 votes
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