Originally Posted by
Frenchie Flyer
Around 1980 there were some (or an) Aussie researchers at U. of Tex. at Austin studying the intriguing use of acronyms by Americans. Apparently we Americans at large were already heavy into using them then in comparison to the Australians.
Aussies just make up entire words usually in a pair that rhyme...Americans were getting ready for text messaging, where making up abbreviations will render a whole generation too stupid to write complete sentences.