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Commonly used and accepted Abbreviations here on the forums:
[list]
[*] DH Dear Husband
[*] DW ֖ Dear Wife
[*] DP - Dear Partner
[*] SO Significant Other
[*] DD ֖ Dear Daughter
[*] DS Dear Son
[*] FD ֖ Foster Daughter
[*] FS Foster Son
[*] FC ֖ Foster Child(ren) Or Family Court (for Guatemalan Adoptions)
[*] MIL Mother In Law
[*] CC & CA ֖ Caucasian
[*] AA African American
[*] IMHO ֖ In My Humble Opinion
[*] JMO Just My Opinion
[*] IMO ֖ In My Opinion
[*] BTW By The Way
[*] FWIW ֖ For What It's Worth
[*] LOL Laugh Out Loud
[*] ROFL ֖ Rolling On the Floor Laughing
[*] FYI For Your Information
[*] KWIM ֖ Know What I Mean
[*] Bmom Birth or Biological Mom (The letters B and M are not acceptable substitutions for Bmom, and many find it offensive.)
[*] PAP ֖ Prospective Adoptive Parent
[*] PBmom Prospective Birthmom ֖ however, the general consensus here on the forums is that a woman is an expectant mother until she gives birth, then she is just a mother. She doesnt become a birthmother until relinquishment has been signed.
[*] BD Җ Birth Dad
[*] BF Birth father (or Boy friend depending on the context, this can be confusing)
[*] CW ֖ Caseworker
[*] SW Social Worker
[*] HS ֖ Homestudy
[*] ISO In Search Of
[*] SN ֖ Special Needs
[*] TPR Termination of Parental Rights
[*]PGN ֖ The Guatemalan equivalent to the Attorney GeneralӔ
[*]CoC Certificate of Citizenship
[*]POA ֖ Power of Attorney
[*]MOE Ministry of Education
[*]TS ֖ Thread Starter
[*]OP Original Poster
[*]OT ֖ Off Topic
[*]LID - Log In Date
[*]DTC - Dossier To China
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If anyone has any they want to add, feel free to PM me, and I will add them to my list! :)
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Thanks, Brandy for posting this. For the longest time, I wondered what OT meant when someone posted their title in the message. Now I know it means "Off topic".
Thank you.,
This helps someone like me, to read posts with a better understanding of what I am reading.
Karen
waiting from Poland
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Yep, BTDT is Been There, Done That. (As someone who has used that acronym before in posts, at least that's what I've meant by it LOL!)
Not to be confused with BITD, which is Back In The Day.
:p
That's so funny. When I first saw "BTDT" someone was talking about the food experience in China. I thought it might be a spice like MSG. I had to google it to figure out what it meant.
Until now, I also thought LOL stood for "laughing online!"
:D
Great list, I just printed it out.
Just bumping cause there have been lots of questions about abbreviations lately.:)
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