The Book Abbreviations: Other Meanings

[wolfloversk]

Has anyone else noticed that some of the book abbreviations have been used for other stuff? If so which ones and for what?

Two that I noticed:

PC: As in the computer

SC: Slough Creek- a location in the videogame, WolfQuest, apparently it's actually located in Yellowstone.

I hope this is the right section for this topic

[Aravis Narnia]

MN- Minnesota, a state in the United States of America

LWW- ???

HHB- almost sounds like a Harry Potter book, but it is not

PC- something I despise and has gotten me into trouble because it is hard to keep up with.

VDT- very close to dV/dT, which is a Calculus term.

SC- South Carolina, another state.

LB- not a state this time. Library Board?

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

PC - Political Correctness

[mar_girl]

LB - Left Behind

Everything else has been said.

[waggawerewolf27]

SC = City of Sydney or Sydney City (In Oz).

[Ithilwen]

Isn't LB the abbreviation for a pound in measurements?


~Riella

[mar_girl]

Oooh, good point, it is. The abbreviation for pounds (unit of weight) is in lowercase letters, though, which is why I didn't think of it (lb.). I think this is because of the Latin word for pounds. I don't know what that is, but in Spanish "pounds" is "libras". *shrug*

[DamselJillPole]

I always thought that about PC meaing PC computer. Sometimes when i look at LWW I sometimes think about a casting or production company name, idk.

[wolfloversk]

OK I looked this up on Wikipedia:

CoN (CON): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con

-Certificate of Need
-Commander of the Order of the Niger
-The Chronicles of Narnia, a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis
-Naruto: Clash of Ninja
-Bone fracture complicated by Compartment syndrome, Open fracture or Neurovascular damage

MN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MN

There's a lot so I'll just list a few:
-Manhattan
-Manganese (Mn)
-Master of Nursing

LWW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LWW
-"Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, an academic and professional medical publisher"

HHB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HHB

-Headquarters and Headquarters Battery
-Henry Hunter Bayne & Co.
-Heysham Port railway station, England; National Rail station code HHB.
-The Horse and His Boy
-HHB Communications, a producer of ADAT audio tape

PC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC

Um.. there's a lot.

VDT: video display terminal
(It redirected me to this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDT )

SC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SC
-Lexus SC
-Santa Cruz
- Scandium
-a lot more...

LB: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LB
-Binary logarithm
-"Labrador's former postal abbreviation" among other things

And just for fun:
NW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NW
-Northwest
-Network
-nanowire
-Northwest Airlines
-Nuclear Warfare

AC (Aslan's Country): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC
SO (Spare Oom): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SO
GMD (General Movie Discussion): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMD
DT (Ditto Town): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DT
TNEC (The Non-Existent Channel): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNEC

G&B (Games and Blogs) brought up a search page