Acronyms You Never Stopped To Figure Out

1. ZIP Code

• Zone Improvement Plan Code

• 2. M&M’s

  Mars and Murrie
  

• 3. RE: (In An E-mail)

  Regarding (not reply!)

• 4. T9 (On Cellphones)

  Texting On 9 Keys

• 5. HTTP

  Hypertext Transfer Protocol

• 6. WD-40

  Water Displacement – 40th Attempt

• 7. Laser

  Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation

• 8. JPEG

  Joint Photographic Experts Group

• 9. IMAX

  Image Maximum

• 10. Radar

  RAdio Detection And Ranging

• 11. Lego

  LEg GOdt (play well in Danish)

• 12. Nabisco

  NAtional BIScuit COmpany

• 13. Canola

  CANadian Oil, Low Acid

• 14. PAM

  Product of Arthur Meyerhoff

• 15. OK

  Oll Korrect (all correct)

• 16. GEICO

  Government Employees Insurance Company

• 17. Wi-Fi

  Wireless Fidelity

• 18. IKEA

  Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd

• 19. CAPTCHA

  Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart

• 20. Q-Tips

  Quality Tips

• 21. RSVP

  Répondez S’il Vous Plaît (Reply Please)

• 22. D-Day

  Day-Day. Not dooms day!

• 23. AM, FM Radio

  Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation

• 24. Yahoo

  Yet Another Hierarchial Official Oracle

• 25. R2D2