Text Message Acronyms

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by c4rlh.com.
Sunday December 24th, 2006 03:32 AM

Info - Acronyms have always been an integral part of computer culture and now they are popular on the Internet and with Text Messaging to represent common phrases that people say to one another. Part of the reason they are used so much is because it's quicker and easier to type out a few letters, rather than typing out the full expression. They're also fun, but some can be naughty so be careful. We hope you find our text message abbreviations below useful;

B Be / Bee
@ At
b4 Before
ATB All the best
C See / Sea
BCNU Be seeing you
CU See you
BTW By the way
Gonna Going to
BWD Backward
GR8 Great
Doin Doing
H8 Hate
F2T Free to talk
L8 Late
FWD Forward
L8R Later
FWIW For what it's worth
Luv Love
FYI For your info
NE Any
GAL Get a life
NETHING Anything
Mob Mobile
M8 Mate
NE1 Anyone
MSG Message
NO1 No-one
PCM Please call me
OIC Oh I see
PLS Please
RU Are you?
RGDS Regards
RUOK Are you ok?
Stra Stray
SUM1 Someone
THNQ Thank you
U You
THX Thanks
UR You are
W With
Wan2 Want to
W/o Without
XLNT Excellent
WKND Weekend
YR Your
XOXOX Hugs and kisses
1 One / Won
2 Too / To / Two
4 For / Four



Sending text messages is extremely common and some people send an unbelievable amount of them each day as it is much cheaper than mobile phone calls. An added benefit of using acronyms in your text messages, particularly if you send a lot, is that the wear and tear on your finger joints is dramatically reduced. FWIW ne1 can use r acronyms 2 txt msg on their mob, cu l8r.


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