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We hear them everyday, but how many of us stop to find their meaning? Here’s a list of 25 words you may not have known the meaning to, much less even known they were acronyms in the first place.

• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 1. ZIP Code</h3> Zone Improvement Plan Code
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 2. M&M’s</h3> Mars and Murrie
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 3. RE: (In An E-mail)</h3> Regarding (not reply!)
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 4. T9 (On Cellphones)</h3> Texting On 9 Keys
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 5. HTTP</h3> Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 6. WD-40</h3> Water Displacement - 40th Attempt
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 7. Laser</h3> Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 8. JPEG</h3> Joint Photographic Experts Group
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 9. IMAX</h3> Image Maximum
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 10. Radar</h3> RAdio Detection And Ranging
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 11. Lego</h3> LEg GOdt (play well in Danish)
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 12. Nabisco</h3> NAtional BIScuit COmpany
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 13. Canola</h3> CANadian Oil, Low Acid
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 14. PAM</h3> Product of Arthur Meyerhoff
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 15. OK</h3> Oll Korrect (all correct)
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 16. GEICO</h3> Government Employees Insurance Company
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 17. Wi-Fi</h3> Wireless Fidelity
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 18. IKEA</h3> Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 19. CAPTCHA</h3> Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 20. Q-Tips</h3> Quality Tips
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 21. RSVP</h3> Répondez S’il Vous Plaît (Reply Please)
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 22. D-Day</h3> Day-Day. Not dooms day!
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 23. AM, FM Radio</h3> Amplitude Modulation, Frequency Modulation
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 24. Yahoo</h3> Yet Another Hierarchial Official Oracle
• <h3 style="margin: -3px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 24px; background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-family: Georgia;"> 25. R2D2</h3> Reel Two, Dialogue Two