You can find the meaning of many acronyms at:
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
You can submit your own there to swell this
lovely :( database. For 'TIA' it offers:
TIA
Tactical Information Assistant
Telecommunication Industry Association
Telephone Information Access
Thanks In Advance [Net jargon]
The Internet Adapter [details available online]
Transient Ischemic Attack
There is a collection of acronyms used by the European Union:
European Union R&D Acronyms
- A dictionary, listing more that 4800 acronyms and abbreviations
used in the context of European Union research. The content
has been selected from the RTD-Acronyms database.
Cost: 25 ecu.
Ref: (ISBN 92-827-4583-x)
Language/s: en (The majority of the entries are in English).
May I enter a suggestion that ALL acronyms (ALLA) be allowed only under
penalty of reading the above document from start to finish each time one
is used? (Starting from now).
--
Christopher Spry
