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- ACK - Nantucket <http://www.ack.net/>
- AKC - American Kennel Club <https://www.akc.org/>
- AMC - Appalachian Mountain Club <http://www.outdoors.org/>
- AMOC - Aston Martin Owners Club <https://www.amoc.org/>
- AOF - Avon Old Farms <http://www.avonoldfarms.com/>
- B&M - Either railroad or beans <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWCxH7mG6Bo>
- B2 (as in BSquared) - Brooks Bros.
- BAA - Boston Athletic Association <http://www.baa.org/>
- BB - Brooks Brothers <http://www.brooksbrothers.com/Oxford-Shirts/men-oxford-shirts,default,sc.html>
- BBH - Boothbay Harbor <http://www.boothbayregister.com/>
- BBN - Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols <http://www.bbns.org/>
BDA - Bermuda |
- BHYC - Boothbay Harbor Yacht Club <http://www.bhyc.net/>
- BSO - Boston Symphony Orchestra <https://www.bso.org/>
- BTRC - Boston Tennis and Racquet Club <http://www.tandr.org/>
- BVI - British Virgin Islands <http://www.bvitourism.com/>
- CCAT - Cape Cod Annoying Tourists
- CRH - Choate Rosemary Hall
- DAR - Daughters of the American Revolution <http://www.dar.org/national-society/become-member/chapters-by-state/MA>
- G&T - Gin and Tonic
- GTH - Go To Hell (Pants)
- HBS – Harvard Business School <http://www.hbs.edu/>
- HENRYs - High Earners, Not Rich Yet
- ILS - Ivy League Sports <http://www.ivyleaguesports.com/>
- ISL - Independent School League <http://www.islsports.org/>
- IYRS - International Yacht Restoration School <http://iyrs.edu/>
- JP - J. Press <http://www.jpressonline.com/>
- JRT - Jack Russel Terrier <http://www.therealjackrussell.com/index.php>
- LAX - Lacrosse (not the airport)
- LLB - L.L. Bean (http://www.llbean.com/)
- MCHT - Maine Coast Heritage Trust <http://www.mcht.org/>
- MDI - Mount Desert Island <http://www.mdislander.com/>
- MFA - Museum of Fine Arts <http://www.mfa.org/>
- MG – Morris Garage <http://mg.co.uk/about-mg/history-heritage/>
- MGH - Massachusetts General Hospital <http://www.massgeneral.org/>
- MHD - Marblehead
- MIT - MIT <http://web.mit.edu/>
- MOB - Man Over Board
- MOFGA - Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association <http://www.mofga.org/>
- MX - Middlesex School, Concord, MA
- NASDAQ - National Association of Securities Dealer Automated Quotation system <http://www.nasdaq.com/>
- NEH -Northeast Harbor <http://www.topix.com/city/northeast-harbor-me>
- NEHGS - New England Historic Genealogical Society <http://www.americanancestors.org/>
- NEIRA - New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Championships
- NESCAC - New England Small College Athletic Conference <http://www.nescac.com/>
- NMH - Northfield Mount Hermon <https://www.nmhschool.org/>
- NOCD - Not Our Class Dear
- NOKD - Not Our Kind Dear
- NPR - National Public Radio <http://www.wbur.org/>
- NYAC - New York Athletic Club <http://www.nyac.org/>
- NYSE - New York Stock Exchange
- NYT - New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/)
- NYYC - New York Yacht Club <http://www.nyyc.org/>
- OCBD - Oxford Cloth Button Down
- OEUE - Over Educated, Under Employed
- PA - Phillips Academy — Andover
- PBS - Public Broadcasting Service <http://www.wgbh.org/>
- PEA - Phillips Exeter Academy <http://www.exeter.edu/>
- PEI - Prince Edward Island (Oyster)
- PFA - People from Away
- POSH - Port Out, Starboard Home
- RAC - Royal Automobile Club
- RISD - Rhode Island School of Design <http://www.risd.edu/>
- RL - Ralph Lauren <http://www.ralphlauren.com/>
- S&P - Standard & Poor's <https://www.standardandpoors.com/>
- S&S - Sparkman & Stephens <http://www.sparkmanstephens.com/>
- SAR - Sons of the American Revolution <http://www.massar.org/>
- SMTC - St. Moritz Tobogganing Club
- SPNEA - Society of the Preservation of New England Antiquities, now, perhaps regrettably, Historic New England <http://www.historicnewengland.org/>
- St. Grottlesex - St. Paul's, St Mark's, St. George's, Groton, Middlesex (Acronym-esque)
- STSEBS - St. Sebastian's School, Needham <http://www.stsebs.org/>
- SVRA - The Sportscar Vintage Racing Association <http://www.svra.com/>
- T - MBTA <http://www.mbta.com/>
- TDF - To Die For
- TNY - The New Yorker <http://www.newyorker.com/>
- TTFW - Too tacky for words <http://instagram.com/>
- USCG - US Coast Guard <http://www.uscg.mil/>
- USCGA - US Coast Guard Academy - New London <http://www.uscga.edu/>
- USET - United States Equestrian Team <https://www.uset.org/>
- USMMA - US Merchant Marine Academy - Kings Point <https://www.usmma.edu/>
- USN - United States Navy <http://www.navy.mil/>
- USS - United States Ship or United States Sailing <http://www.ussailing.org/>
- USTA - United States Tennis Association <http://www.usta.com/>
- VSCCA - Vintage Sports Car Club of America
- WASP - White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- WHOI - funny acronym for a very serious place—the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute <http://www.whoi.edu/>
- WSJ - Wall Street Journal <http://www.wsj.com/>
- YGRR - Yankee Golden Retriever Rescue <http://www.ygrr.org/>
- YLS - Yale Law School
- ___YC - Fill-in-the-blank Yacht Club
MIF “Milk In First” (UK)
ReplyDeleteLove your blog! These are both informative and amusing.
ReplyDeleteSITCOM - Single Income Two Children Outrageous Mortgage
ReplyDeletePICNIC - Problem In Chair Not In Computer
ReplyDeleteOne for the tech people.
FT Financial Times. NB the Saturday edition is the best paper in print.
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19
ReplyDeleteSuperb as always! Thank you so very much!
ReplyDeleteHOCR-Head of the Charles Regatta
ReplyDeleteSurely if ACK is listed, MV should be as well, no? And could go beyond to OB, EDG, TIS...
ReplyDeleteAnd another one for the top boarding schools: GLADCHEMMS (Groton, Lawrenceville, Andover, Deerfield, Choate, Hotchkiss, Exeter, Milton, Middlesex, St. Paul's).
ReplyDeleteRMC - Randolph Mountaineering Club, which maintains year-round shelters in New Hampshire's Presidentials on the shoulder of Mt. Adams (the AMC huts that are high up in the Presidentials close for the winter).
ReplyDeleteNimby - Not In My Back Yard
ReplyDeleteMy favorite is ASAP but always spoken as A-SAP.
ReplyDeleteAnd another one for the top boarding schools: GLADCHEMMS (Groton, Lawrenceville, Andover, Deerfield, Choate, Hotchkiss, Exeter, Milton, Middlesex, St. Paul's).
ReplyDeleteWhaaat? Taking aside how ridiculous the acronym is, nobody in their right mind considers Groton Lawrenceville, Milton, or Middlesex remotely on par with the other schools listed. Heck, even Choate is a stretch.
PU = Pacific Union Club
ReplyDeleteTLA...three letter acronym
ReplyDeletePEBCAK...problem exists between chair and keyboard