OT A link for the pedants, includes fewer/less.

http://www.economist.com/research/styleGuide/index.cfm?page=673903

It starts...

Acronym: this is a word, like radar or NATO, not a set of initials,
like the BBC or the IMF.

I read that and thought, yes this is one for UKRM.

 

It's technically incorrect.

An acronym is a word made from the first letters or syllables of other
words, simple as that.

 

No it's not.

 

uh huh...

http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?
query=Acronym

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/acronym

STFU

 

You mean like ACRONYM for "A Completely Random Order Not Yielding Meaning" ?

 

Nice link, thanks. Bookmarked. But I've been wondering lately,
(because I use these far too much). Where, when a set of brackets is
used, does one put the full stop?

Here I say a load of junk. (More here.) More here.
or
Here I say a load of junk. (More here). More here.

I think the first is technically correct, but the second 'looks' right
to me. Can't see it in the style guide.

Pedantic's ahoy!

 

Neither, IMHO. Here I say a load of junk (more here). More here.

 

I think you might have just been whooshed.

 

Load of bollocks (iyam).

 

My style (of which you will find many examples in this nudesgrope)
is to put the full-stop after a parenthetical phrase which is part of a
sentence, but include the period within the brackets for a full, but
parenthesised, sentence. (If you see what I mean.)

Silly buoy!

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Left hand down a bit.

 

IIRC Michael Green's definition of a coarse sailor was one who in an
emergency shouts "for God's sake turn left!".