Quest for Giant Bomb E3 Set Porn Bears Fruit

WARNING: At least one link from that page is DEFINITELY NSFW!

H/T: Language Log.

Maintaining Hollywood's legendarily tawdry image ("This is what happens when you have to rent space in Los Angeles, I guess.")

Funny!

I am not as savvy about those initialisms as I could be, so I had to look up NSFW. Thanks for letting us know!

I always liked the old snopes initialism - I even had a T-shirt made with it on

NFBSK - Not for British School Kids

Excellent!

I think this board (and I thank arnie for that!) is about the only place where I see initialism and acronym used correctly. Nearly everywhere else calls everything an acronym. Indeed, initialism is redlined when I type, indicating it isn't a word in their system.

I think this board [...] is about the only place where I see initialism and acronym used correctly.

Google Ngram Viewer on the two words.

Interesting. Although the American and British corpora show roughly the same results, there's an little bump between 1865 and 1872 for initialism in British English. Since acronyms and initialisms were uncommon during the 19th century anyway, I wonder if someone coined the word with a different meaning then?

There are many places along the line where each one is 0.0 - what does that mean? Those terms weren't used at all then?