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Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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[–] [email protected] 161 points 11 months ago (21 children)

Mtg. A lot of posts and articles use it for Marjory Taylor Green an it always confuses me, I keep trying to figure out what Magic the Gathering has to do with Jewish space lasers.

[–] victorz -5 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Not an acronym. Unless you pronounce it "Muttaguh" or something?

[–] SiegeRhino 19 points 11 months ago (4 children)

this guy going around saying "oosa" instead of USA 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Is that not what it’s called???

[–] Archer 3 points 11 months ago

Oosa Jar Jar Binks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

It sounds like you’re saying “You ass”

[–] victorz 0 points 11 months ago

Who me? Or the one I was replying to, right? 😄

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