Like it or not, abbreviations and acronyms are now an essential ingredient of everyday life.
Since the first edition of The Wordsworth Dictionary of Abbreviations & Acronyms" was published in 1997, the compilers have been diligently collecting further examples from many walks of life including for example, such gems as DISH: Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (the result of eating too much
protein which causes the vertebrae to fuse, aka Friar Tuck syndrome), GROLIES: Guardian Readers of Limited Intelligence in Ethnic Skirts and ROMP: Radical Office Movement Policy (at Pearl Assurance, where moving from one desk to another is alleged to reduce clutter).