Slang and abbreviation part 4

List of acronyms begin with ‘B’:

• B& - Banned, Band
  
• B&M - Bricks and Mortar
  
• B2B - Back To Back
• B2W - Back To Work
  
• B4 - Before
  
• B4N - Bye For Now
  
• B4U - Before you
  
• BAC - Back At Computer
  
• BAE - Baby
  
• BAH - Bored As Hell
  
• BAI - Bye
  
• BAK - Back At Keyboard
  
• BAMN - By Any Means Necessary
  
• BAU - Business As Usual
  
• BAY - Baby
  
• BBAM - Be Back After Meal
  
• BBFN - Bye Bye For Now
  
• BBG - Best Be Going
  
• BBIAB - Be Back In A Bit
  
• BBIAF - Be Back In A Few
  
• BBIAM - Be Back In A Minute
  
• BBIAS - Be Back In A Sec
  
• BBL - Be Back Later
  
• BBM - Blackberry Messaging
  
• BBML - Be Back Much Later
  
• BBQ – Barbecue, Better Be Quick
  
• BBS - Be Back Soon
  
• BBT - Be Back Tomorrow
  
• BCC - Blind Carbon Copy
  
• BCNU - Be Seeing You
  
• BCOS - Because
  
• BD - Big Deal
  
• BDSM - Bondage and Discipline, Sadism and Masochism
  
• BEF - Best Enemies Forever, Best Email Friend
  
• BESTE - Best Friend
  
• BF - Boyfriend
  
• BF4L - Best Friends For Life
  
• BFA - Best Friends Always
  
• BFF - Best Friends Forever
  
• BFF4L - Best Friends Forever For Life
  
• BFFAE - Best Friends Forever And Ever
  
• BFFE - Best Friends Forever
  
• BFFFL - Best Friend Forever For Life
  
• BFFL - Best Friend For Life
  
• BFFN - Best Friend For Now
  
• BFFWB - Best Friend Forever With Benefits
  
• BFN - Bye For Now
  
• BFUT - Best Friends Until Tomorrow
  
• BGM - Background Music
  
• BH - Be Happy
  
• BHH - Bless His/Her Heart
  
• BHM - Big Handsome Man
  
• BI - Bad Influence
  
• BICBW - But I Could Be Wrong
  
• BIL - Brother In-Law
  
• BIN - Buy It Now
  
• BION - Believe It Or Not
  
• BKA - Better Known As
  
• BL - Bad Luck
  
• BLNT - Better Luck Next Time
  
• BLOL - Big Laugh Out Loud
  
• BLTN - Better Late Than Never

• BM - Bowel Movement, Black Man
  
• BMF - Be My Friend
  
• BNB - Bread 'N' Butter

• BO - Body odour / Body Odor
  
• BOL - Best Of Luck
  
• BOLO - Be On The Lookout
  
• BOOMM - Bored Out Of My Mind
  
• BOT - Back On Topic
  
• BOTTS - Back On To The Subject
  
• BR - Best Regards
  
• BRB - Be Right Back
  
• BRGDS - Best Regards
  
• BRH - Be Right Here
  
• BRT - Be Right There
  
• BSOF - Big Smile On Face
  
• BSOFN - Big Smile On Face Now
  
• BST - But Seriously Though
  
• BTB - By The By
  
• BTGOG - By The Grace Of God
  
• BTL - Between The Lines
  
• BTM - Be There Moment
  
• BTTT - Back To The Top
  
• BTW - By The Way
  
• BTY - Back To You
  
• BW - Beautiful Woman
  
• BWL - Bursting With Laughter
  
• BYAM - Between You And Me
  
• BYTM - Better You Than Me
  

Slang and abbreviation part 3

List of acronyms begin with ‘A’.

• A&F- Always And Forever
  
• A3 - Anywhere, Any time, Any place
  
• AA - Alcoholics Anonymous,African-American,Automobile Association
  
• AAB - Average At Best
  
• AAF - Always and Forever
  
• AAK - Alive And Kicking
  
• AAMOF - As A Matter Of Fact
  
• AAP - Always A Pleasure
  
• AAR - At Any Rate
  
• AAWY - And Also With You
  
• AAYF - As Always Your Friend
  
• ABS - Absolutely
  
• ABT - About
  
• ABT2 - About To
  
• ACK - Disgust, frustration, Acknowledgement
  
• ADL - All Day Long
  
• ADN - Any Day Now
  
• AEAE - And Ever And Ever
  
• AEAP - As Early As Possible
  
• AFAIAC - As Far As I Am Concerned
  
• AFAIC - As Far As I'm Concerned
  
• AFAICS - As Far As I Can See
  
• AFAICT - As Far As I Can Tell
  
• AFAIK - As Far As I Know
  
• AFAIR - As Far As I Remember
  
• AFAP - As Far As Possible
  
• AFC - Away From Computer
  
• AFFA - Angels Forever, Forever Angels
  
• AFK - Away From Keyboard
  
• AFN - that's All For Now
  
• AFS - Always, Forever and Seriously
  
• AHEM - Throat clearing sound
  
• AIGF - All In Good Fun
  
• AIGHT - All right
  
• AIIC - As If I Care
  
• AIKRN - All I know right now
  
• AISB - As I Said before
  
• AISI - As I See it
  
• AIT - Alright
  
• AITE - Alright
  
• AIUI - As I Understand it
  
• AKA - Also Known As
  
• ALIHAL - At Least I Have A Life
  
• ALOL - Actually Laughing Out Loud
  
• ALOTBSOL - Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
  
• AMA - Ask Me Anything, Against Medical Advice
  
• AMEX - American Express
  
• AMG - Ah My God
  
• AMIRITE - Am I Right?
  
• AML - All My Love
  
• AMZ - Amazing
  
• ANON - Unknown person
  
• ANY1 - Anyone
  
• AOB - Any Other Business
  
• AOE - Area Of Effect
  
• AOL - American Online
  
• AON - All Or Nothing, As Of Now
  
• AOT - As Opposed To, Among Other Things
  
• AOTA - All Of The Above
  
• APPROX - Approximately
  
• APU - As Per Usual
  
• ARK - Act of Random Kindness
  
• ASAIC - As Soon As I Can
  
• ASAP - As Soon as Possible
  
• ASAS - As soon as sensible
  
• ASL - Age, Sex, Location
  
• ASP - At Some Point
  
• ATB - All The Best
  
• ATEOTD - At The End Of The Day
  
• ATF - All Time Favorite
  
• ATK - Attack
  
• ATN - Any Time Now
  
• ATST - At The Same Time
  
• ATT - At This Time, All The Time
  
• ATTN - Attention
  
• ATV - All Terrain Vehicle
  
• ATWA - Air, Trees, Water, Animals, All The Way Alive
  
• ATYS - Anything You Say
  
• AUO - I don't know
  
• AWA - As Well As
  
• AWHFY - Are We Having Fun Yet
  
• AWNP - All Work, No Play
  
• AWSM - Awesome
  
• AWW - Any Which Way
  
• AYE - Yes
  
• AYFR - Are You For Real?
  
• AYKM - Are You Kidding Me?
  
• AYL - Are You Listening?
  
• AYO - Hey, You
  
• AYOR - At Your Own Risk
  
• AYS - Are You Serious?
  
• AYSOS - Are You Stupid Or Something?
  
• AYT - Are You There?
  
• AYW - As You Wish
  
• AZN - Asian
  

Affect and effect

Affect is usually a verb.

1. To influence someone or something, or cause them to change.

• It’s a disease which affects many younger people.
  
• The noise affects my performance.
  
• The problem affects everyone.
  

2. To cause a strong emotion, especially sadness (often passive).

• The house was affected by the fire.
  
• He was deeply affected by the film.
  
• The people are affected by flood.
  
  

Effect is usually a noun.
A change, reaction, or result that is caused by something.

• The promotion had a huge effect on his life.
  
• Effects of the flood are destructive.
  
  

Effect as a verb:
To make something happen.

• The quit India movement effected a huge change.

Slang and abbreviation part 2

0.0 Surprise

0/ Waving

143 I Love You

14344 I Love You Very Much

1437 I Love You Forever

153 I Adore You

1AAT One At A Time

2 To

2B To Be

2BH To Be Honest

2DAY Today

2G2BT Too Good To Be True

2K4U To Cool For You

2L8 Too late

2M Tomorrow

2MRW Tomorrow

2MI Too Much Information

2NITE Tonight

2NYT Tonight

2U To You

2U2 To You Too

3G Third Generation mobile phone network

4 For

4COL For Crying Out Loud

4E4 Forever

4GET Forget

4GM Forgive me

4M Forum

4RL? For Real?

4U For You

5N Fine

7DAW Seven Days A Week

10-4 Understood, OK

10Q Thank you

10X Thanks

Slang and abbreviation: Part 1

Followings are commonly used in communications like SMS, websites, etc.


:$ Embarrassed

:’( Crying

:) Happy

:-( Sad

:-) Smile

:-* Kiss

:/ Sarcasm

:3 Cute / goofy face

:9 Yum

:? Confused

:@ Angry

:C Very Sad

:D Happy

:L Laughing

:O Surprised

:S Confused

:X Zipped lips

;( Crying

;-) Wink

;D Wink

;P Winking and sticking tongue out

;O Joking

=.= Tired

=X No Comment

@_@ Hypnotized

^O^ Hurrah

^^ Happy

$_$ Has money

%) giddy

>.> Suspicious

>.< Frustrated

>3 Evil but happy

>:( Angry

>:) Evil Grin

>:O Angry

<> Not equal

*_* In love, dazed

-.- Annoyance

-_- Annoyed, tired

:B Buck teeth


:P Sticking tongue out

(8) Musical note (MSN)

(A) Angel (MSN)

(H) Cool dude emoticon (MSN)

(K) Kiss (MSN)

(L) Love heart (MSN)

(N) Thumbs down (MSN)

(Y) Thumbs up (MSN)

Informal Contractions

Informal contractions are short forms of other words used when speaking casually. They are a little like slang.

For example, "gonna" is a short form of "going to". If "going to" is said very fast, without carefully pronouncing each word, it sounds like "gonna".

They are not used in "correct" speech.
What are you going to do? = Whatcha going to do? = Whatcha gonna do?

Do you want a book? = Do you wanna book? = D'you wanna book? = D'ya wanna book? = Ya wanna book? = Wanna book?

ain't = am not/are not/is not
I ain't Murugan.You ain't my uncle.

ain't = has not/have not
I ain't gone there.
He ain't drawn yet.

gimme = give me
Gimme your pencil.

gonna = going to
What are you gonna do?

gotta = (have) got a
I've gotta pen.
I gotta gun.

gotta = (have) got to
I've gotta go.
I gotta go.

kinda = kind of
The baby’s kinda cute.

lemme = let me
Lemme swim!

wanna = want to
I wanna go now.

wanna = want a
I wanna chair.

whatcha = what are you
Whatcha going to do?

whatcha = what have you
Whatcha got there?

ya = you
Who saw ya?

Advice and advise

Advice is a noun. This word is not countable. It is a recommendation. It means guidance. It is an opinion that someone offers.

“My teacher’s advice was sound and everyone listened to him.”

"I need someone to give me some advice."

“I need some advice”.

You can give someone a 'piece of advice'.

“Let me give you some advice about traveling.”

“His advice was very useful.”


Advise is a verb. It means "to give advice", “to recommend" or "counsel”. It refers to the act of giving advice.

"Ram advices Sita to see a lawyer."

"I would advise you to submit your resignation in view of this scandal."

"My lawyer has advised me to settle this matter out of court."

"He advises Latha to be nice to her parents."


Mary advised (verb) Tom not to see John. He should have followed her advice (noun).