Some consider the two the same. Which of course they aren’t.

In short Transfer is the act of taking a call and then transferring it to another location. This could be another extension, telephone user (inside or outside of the organization) or as it may have been for the past 15 years or so, to someone’s voice mail.

To Forward is to have all calls that come to your number forwarded to another number. Presently this in most cases is to your voice mail box.

8 – Oral Sex

Banana – Penis

FB – F*** Buddy

FOL – Fond of Leather

GNOC – Get Naked On Cam
GYPO – Get Your Pants Off

IMEZRU – I Am Easy, Are You?
IWSN – I Want Sex Now
ILF/MD – I Love Female/Male Dominance

J/O – Jerking Off

KFY or K4Y – Kiss For You
Kitty – Vagina

LMIRL – Let’s Meet In Real Life

NIFOC – Nude In Front Of The Compute

PRON – Porn

Q2C – Quick To Cum

RU/18 – Are You Over 18?
RUH – Are You Horny?

10Q — Thank You
1DAY — One day
1ON1 — One on one
1NC — Once

2 — To/Two/Too
2DAY — Today
2bctnd — To be continued.
2d4 — To die for
2g4u — To good for you
2l8 — Too late
2MORO — Tomorrow
2NITE — Tonight
2WIMC — To whom it may concern

3 8 1 — Three words, eight letters, one meaning (I Love You)

4 — For
4e — Forever
4gv — Forgive
4gvn — Forgiven
4yeo — For your eyes only

7K – Sick

8 – Ate
8ball – Eightball

911 — Emergency, call me

AAMOF – As a matter of fact.
AFAIC – As far as I’m concerned.
AFAIK – As far as I know.
AFK – Away from keyboard.
Alwz – Always
ASL – Age, sex, location
ASAP – As soon as possible.
ATB – All the best.
ATK – At the keyboard.
ATM – At the moment.
AWHFY – Are we having fun yet?
A3 – Anytime, anywhere, anyplace

B – Be.
B4 – Before.
B4N – Bye for now.
BAK – Back at keyboard.
(B)B4N or (B)BFN – (Bye) Bye for now.
BBIAB – Be back in a bit.
BBL – Be back later.
BBS – Be back soon.
BCNU – Be seeing you.
BF – Boyfriend.
BFz4evr – Best friends forever
BHL8 – Be home late.
BIL – Boss is listening
BION – Believe it or not.
Bn – Been
BOL – Best of luck
BRT – Be right there.
BTW – By the way.

C – See.
CM – Call me.
CU – See you
CUBL8R – Call you back later.
CU@ – See you at
CYA – See you around, See ya
CMi –Call me
CMON – Come On
CUB L8R – Call you back later
CUL8R – See you later
CYR BOS – Call Your Boss
CYR BRO – Call your brother
CYR H – Call your husband
CYR MA – Call your mother
CYR OFIS – Call your office
CYR PA – Call your father
CYR SIS – Call your sister
CYR WF – Call your wife

DK – Don’t know.
DNR – Dinner
doN – Doing
Dur? – Do you remember?
D8 – Date.

E2eg – Ear to ear grin
EOD – End of discussion
EOL – End of lecture
EVRY1 – Everyone
EZY – Easy
EZ – Easy

FAQ – Frequently asked questions
FC – Fingers crossed
F2F – Face to face
F2T – Free to talk
F? – Friends?
FITB – Fill in the blank
FOMCL – Fell out of my chair laughing
FYEO – For your eyes only
FYA – For your amusement
FYI – For your information
F2F – Face to face
F2T – Free to talk
FWIW – For what it’s worth.

GAL — Get a life
GF – Girlfirend
GG – Good game
GMeSumLuvin – Give me some lovin’!
GMTA – Great minds think alike
GSOH – Good salary, own home
GTSY – Glad to see you
GUDLUK – Good luck
GR8 – Great!
G9 — Genius
G1 – Good one.
G2G – Got to go.

IAE – In any event.
IBK – Idiot behind keyboard.
IC – I see.
ICQ – I seek you.
IDK – I don’t know.
ILU – I love you.
IML8 – I’m late.
IMTNG – In meeting.
IOW – In other words.
IOU – I owe you.
IRL – In real life.
IYSS – If you say so.

JAM – Just a minute.
JTLYK – Just to let you know.
J4F – Just for fun.

KHYF – Know how you feel.
KWIM – Know what I mean?

L8R – Later.
LDR – Long distance relationship.
LMHO – Laughing my head off.
LOL – Laugh out loud.
LTNS – Long time no see.
LTNT – Long time, no type/text.
LUV – Love.
LYLAS – Love you like a sister.

M8 – Mate.
MEGO – My eyes glaze over.
MTE — My thoughts exactly.
MTFBWY – May the force be with you.
MYOB – Mind your own business.

NETHNG – Anything.
NMHO – In my humble opinion.
NO1 – No one.
NP – No problem.
NRN – NO reply necessary.
NTW – Not to worry.

OIC – Oh, I see.
OMG – Oh my God.
OTOH – On the other hand.
OTT — Over the top.

PCM – Please call me.
PITB – Pain in the butt.
PLS – Please.
PLZ4GVME – Please forgive me.
PRL – Parents are listening.
PRT – Party.
PUKS – Pick up kids.

QT – Cutie.

R – Are.
RGDS – Regards.
RNGL8 – Running late.
RLR – Earlier.
ROTFL – Rolling on the floor laughing.
RTM – Read the manual.
RUCMNG – Are you coming?
RUOK – Are you OK?

SK8 – Skate.
SK8R – Skater.
SPK – Speak.
SUM1 – Someone.
SWIM – See what I mean?
SYS – See you soon.

TAFN – That’s all for now.
THNQ – Thank you.
THX – Thanks.
TMB – Text me back.
TTFN – Ta ta for now.
TTUL – Talk to you later.
TTTT – To tell the truth.
TTYL – Talk to you later.
TVM – Thanks very much.

U – You.
UI! – You idiot
UOK – You OK?
U2 – You too.
U4E – Yours forever.
UR – Your

W — With
WAN2 – Want to?
WB – Welcome back.
WE – Whatever
WKEND – Weekend
WOA – Work of art.
WOT – What?
WRU – Where are you?
WTH – What the Heck
WTG – Way to go!
WUF — Where are you from?
W8 – Wait.
W84ME – Wait for me.

XLNT – Excellent
XOXO – Hugs and kisses.

YKWIM – You know what I mean?

Revised on March 6, 2010 – Added codes.

It is used as the document format for web pages on the Internet defining page layout, fonts and graphical elements.

When asked I have to admit I didn’t know. I have seen it displayed as email, e-mail, E-Mail and E-mail, as well as others. Many times I myself have used eMail and at times E-mail.

I began a search and discovered that there isn’t a documented agreed upon format.

Many dictionaries seem to use the form E-Mail, with their reasoning coming from other such as X-ray and T-shirt.

In 2006 the ‘email experience council’ (they do use all small letters in their name) issued a statement that they were establishing ‘the official spelling for electronic mail as email’. And that the word should follow standard spelling rules such as using Email, when it’s the first word of the sentence.

The email experience council or the eec is an organization that “… email marketing arm of the Direct Marketing Association, is a global professional organization that strives to enhance the image of email marketing and communications …”. One of their first orders of business when forming in 2006 was to develop this standard for the word email.

Even though there isn’t an agreed upon standard, other than that of the eec, I have decided to use from now on to use email as the proper format. That is until an official format is determined. In someways this seems like the logical direction that it is heading.

Email is becoming so much of a common word in our language, that it is really becoming a word. Not too many even are aware that it is short for Electronic Mail.

This leads to the question about some of the other technical words.

Should it be Website, Web Site or something else?

This seems to have a standard. Since Web is short for World Wide Web, a proper noun, it should be written as Web site. A page on the site is a Web page.

It would lead to that it is Internet for the same reason.

While they are responsible of that portion of the circuit, they are not responsible to you, but the carrier from which you ordered the circuit. Any and all troubles need to be reported to that carrier and not the local carrier.