Learn about the history of these linguistic shortcuts, along with the most commonly used acronym examples—ASAP!

Chris receives some more acronyms from listeners. Chris Evans and the rest of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show team had their minds blown this morning with the revelation that the words "scuba" and ...

We use acronyms all the time ... Electric Rifle," an homage to a fictional character from the early 1900s. The word caught on and eventually gave us the verb "tase," meaning to fire a Taser ...