Acronyms are driving me NUTS!!

[mikjr]

I've been on the board for just a few months, and I'm picking up some of the jargon, but the ACRONYMS still drive me crazy... I keep running across new ones I can't figure out.

 

is there a legend page that identifies there mysterious little letters??

 

DH... DW... MUTS... CB... TA... AA... OBC... it just never ends...

 

:eek: AHHHHHH!!! :eek:

[Colo Cruiser]

I've been on the board for just a few months, and I'm picking up some of the jargon, but the ACRONYMS still drive me crazy... I keep running across new ones I can't figure out.

 

is there a legend page that identifies there mysterious little letters??

 

DH... DW... MUTS... CB... TA... AA... OBC... it just never ends...

 

:eek: AHHHHHH!!! :eek:

 

 

DH=Darling Husband

DW=Dizzy Wife

MUTS=Movies Under The Stars

CB=Caribbean Princess

TA=Travel Agent

AA=Alcoholics Anon/American Airlines/:D

OBC=onboard Credit

[Foxy lady]

I've been on the board for just a few months, and I'm picking up some of the jargon, but the ACRONYMS still drive me crazy... I keep running across new ones I can't figure out.

 

is there a legend page that identifies there mysterious little letters??

 

DH... DW... MUTS... CB... TA... AA... OBC... it just never ends...

 

:eek: AHHHHHH!!! :eek:

 

You forgot B2Bs ;>)

[mrdood]

...you can google almost any acronym and figure it out...

[mikjr]

DH=Darling Husband

DW=Dizzy Wife

MUTS=Movies Under The Stars

CB=Caribbean Princess

TA=Travel Agent

AA=Alcoholics Anon/American Airlines/:D

OBC=onboard Credit

 

Hey... thanks alot... that really helps... but, why is the husband a darling and the wife dizzy?? Do the ladies on this board know about this??:D

 

Also, I ran across one I cannot figure out... "the UBD experience"?

thanks again...

[CassCruise]

Ultimate Balcony Dinner:D and it is a delightful experience!!!

[Nylsor]

I posted a similar question back in February and was directed to this site by poster dforeigner:

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Hope you find this helpful.

Also if you go to Search on this board and enter 'abbreviations' you will find other threads.

Ros

[Casshew]

 

AA=Alcoholics Anon/American Airlines/:D

Mini Suite category on the grand class is AA

 

(also AB, AC, AD, AE)

[Pia1913]

DH=Darling Husband

DW=Dizzy Wife

 

DH may = "darling", but DW is definitely "dear." After all, how dizzy can she be if she's the one who does most of the cruise arrangements?

[GloriaF]

DH may = "darling", but DW is definitely "dear." After all, how dizzy can she be if she's the one who does most of the cruise arrangements?

 

How true!!

 

And DH can also mean darn, demented,and dilapidated husband as well as darling and dear husband --- all depending on what he's done lately :p

[Pia1913]

How true!!

 

And DH can also mean darn, demented,and dilapidated husband as well as darling and dear husband --- all depending on what he's done lately :p

 

Mine does the dishes. Definitely dear and darling.

[arxcards]

I've been on the board for just a few months, and I'm picking up some of the jargon, but the ACRONYMS still drive me crazy... I keep running across new ones I can't figure out.

 

is there a legend page that identifies there mysterious little letters??

 

DH... DW... MUTS... CB... TA... AA... OBC... it just never ends...

 

:eek: AHHHHHH!!! :eek:

What's NUTS?

 

Is that an acronym like MUTS? - Nachos Under The Stars?

 

AFAIK, acronyms can be part of normal society.

 

BTW, when did it become OK to call passengers PAXs.

 

Cheers,

[wtevrfltsurbt]

What's NUTS?

 

Is that an acronym like MUTS? - Nachos Under The Stars?

 

AFAIK, acronyms can be part of normal society.

 

BTW, when did it become OK to call passengers PAXs.

 

Cheers,

 

OMG! too funny! IDK when they became PAX, WU w\that?

IMHO, TISNF to those who don't speak acronym;)

 

(Oh my gosh! too funny! I don't know when they became pax, what's up with that? In my humble opinion this is so not fair to those who don't speak acronym.:D )

[Druke I]

PAX for passengers came about far before computers became the norm. It has been around for a couple of hundred years or so.

 

Railroads used the term, along with three letter alpha codes for stations, long before airlines took up the practice.

 

Many acronyms were used in Morse telegraphy for many moons.

[Boytjie]

Pax — an abbreviation for "passengers" used by the travel industry. Some hotels now use it to mean individual guests opposed to rooms. In Gastronomy and/or event management it may also stand for "participants"

PAX or pax — an American acronym for "Persons At Table" (as in '20pax' = 20 Persons At Table) used by the hospitality industry. Originally written as 'PAT' but through ambiguous written characters (T being mistaken as X), over time became 'PAX'

[ArizonaRalphie]

Acronyms are driving me NUTS!!

 

Not Until Tomorrow Sonny

[cruisemom42]

*ROFLMAO*

 

(Rolling on floor laughing my arse off!)

[arxcards]

PAX for passengers came about far before computers became the norm. It has been around for a couple of hundred years or so.

 

Railroads used the term, along with three letter alpha codes for stations, long before airlines took up the practice.

 

Many acronyms were used in Morse telegraphy for many moons.

 

Thanks Michael,

I thought acronyms were useful. Save time & space & effort. If it is suitable to shorten a 4 letter word like okay to OK, it makes sense to do it for longer phrases as well.

 

Thanks for the extra detail boytjie.

 

I was just having a bit of fun with the subject, but have learnt a couple of things as well.

 

Cheers

Geoff

[Doug R.]

What's NUTS?

 

Is that an acronym like MUTS? - Nachos Under The Stars?

 

AFAIK, acronyms can be part of normal society.

 

BTW, when did it become OK to call passengers PAXs.

 

Cheers,

 

NUTS- N**KIE Under the Stars?

[Lynda90]

And don't forget pita (pain in the a**). Also known as DH. Just joking, of course. :D :p

[Pia1913]

And don't forget pita (pain in the a**). Also known as DH. Just joking, of course. :D :p

 

On occasion of course. :D

[happyscot]

Many acronyms were used in Morse telegraphy for many moons.

 

 

Why were people talking so much about moons?????

 

:confused:

[GloriaF]

NUTS- N**KIE Under the Stars?

 

I like that one - but not on the public decks, please!

[sonomaphil]

*****?????

[Pia1913]

*****?????

 

I'm certainly not going to be the one to translate this one.