OLAs - Official Latest Additions

[This summary post last updated 3.vi.21]

The best place to leave your suggestions for new TLAs is in the comments to this post.

EIT (CIA dodginess)
LKP (missing aircraft)
PNG (immigration)
PSE (porn meets education)
DMT (drugs)
SAF (football) LOL (Lesbianism)
PDA (Heat mag)
COP (The Beats)
ESM (Europe)
NFC (tech)
HMD (bankers' desperation)
FTM (soccer)
KBO (an attitude to life)
GID (medical)
OBE (facial hair)
MIC & AVB (Chelsea)
EMH (economics, finance)
EBA (Eurozone crisis Nov 2011)
POC (interactive media)
NTC (Libya)
DSK (IMF dodgy geezer)
SCG, MCG (cricket)
WFT, WIT (flexible working)
FBI (female bodies)
KoT (youth)
FPM, CPM (bad language)
WRU, FAW (Welsh sport)
CDA (Francais)
DUI (Mel Gibson)
LOL (Northern Irish politics ...and love)
VBM (property development)
OBR, NHT, IFS (UK politics)
ICO, DPA, DPO (data protection)
2IC (military)
TFP (photography/modelling)
WHL, MoS, RSA (football)
BFD (urban argot)
MBW (friend of Banksy)
ADT (The Beatles)
NIB (journalism/press)
FGM (barbarism)
MNU (District 9)
PBR, IDS, DWP (UK politics)
FAG (Team America)
TLV, EMP, REG, OCR (Dan Brown)
POD (geek speak)
TAS (from the mouth of Jack Nicholson)
ATM (a multifaceted one)
HWC (football again)
FIA + FFF (football & cheating)
CPH (to mark CPH:DOX film festival)
AIC (music)
NCM (relationships)
GDD (video games design)
FLK - courtesy of Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies
HABs - football
SCD (TV)
GSI (Scotland)
TOS (impolite)
RTG + OIC - from The Wire
G4P - stems from Antony Gormley's One & Other
QBM - 80s haircut
PIC - from Role Models movie
TYM - a break-through in Alzheimer's, improves screening from 50% to over 90%

Neologisms

As well as being on the look out for new TLAs, I'm also starting to collect Neologisms (newly coined words and phrases) which I'm dumping here (again, any you can add to the pot would be gratefully received):

shrinkflation - making products smaller rather than upping the price (7.18)

floordrobe - a bedroom floor where you chuck your clothes

freemale - an independent, modern woman who is happier living a fulfilling single life than actively pursuing romantic relationships

pharming - creating drugs using plants

Neverendum = the 2014 Scottish referendum
Nonsultation = a hollow 'consultation'

wavey = drunk = good
bump = rip off

belfie = a selfie of your bottom
welfie = a work-out selfie
drelfie = a drunken selfie

starchitect = world renowned architect

pregacy = impact of an initiative even before the event (e.g. effects of Commonwealth Games on Glasgow before the event)
predrinks = getting your evening off to a flying start with alcohol round at someone's place

wofty = a waste of fucking time (person) [estate agency]

himbo = a dumb good looking man

YOLO (vb.) = You Only Live Once as in 'he didn't YOLO it' - he didn't go wild

deer hoof = a very obvious camel toe

la-la / hoo-ha = vagina

Grexit = the probable exit of Greece from the Euro (May 2012) - Dramchmageddon = the probable exit of Greece from the Euro (June 2012)
Brexit = the possible exit of the UK from the EU (2016) [it happened today FFS! 24/6/16]
Frexit = the possible exit of France from the EU (24/6/16)

al desko = [eating] at your desk at work

clicktivism = online activism (see Slacktivism below)

sans sausage = female

meatspace = the real/off-line world

merch = merchandise (especially at music gigs)

zenployment = fulfilling work, even if the pay's not as good as you may be used to

Riot Wombles = volunteers who help clear up their neighbourhood after rioting/looting (9.viii.11)

Schadenfreudgasm = more 'joy in destruction' than you can handle - courtesy of John Oliver on Jon Stewart

Gliberal = comfortable people's style of being liberal

Ledge veg = food grown on windowsill or balcony

Slacktivism = online activism with no personal effort or real commitment

Hobby bobby - community support officer (William Boyd, Ordinary Thunderstorms)

Crash for cash - insurance scam involving ramming people's car rear ends

Hackney tax - theft of bike {courtesy of Alfie Dennen}

Floordrobe - where teenagers leave their clothes

Tanorexic - obsessed with having a sun tan

Autocutie - a sexy newsreader

Halfologue - one side of a conversation like when you overhear a mobile phonecall on the train

A Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment - as in WTF = What the Fuck?!

Subvertiser - a remixer of advertisements {courtesy of Clifford Singer, creator of MyDavidCameron.com and Big Art Project}

Screenager - the generation addicted to web and games

Miaow Miaow - mephedrone, a legal high (for now at least)

Security theatre - giving the appearance of carrying out proper security checks {courtesy of Roger Graef, Films of Record}

Bromance - the development of a deep friendship between two buddies (came across several times in reviews of Judd Apatow's Funny People)

Frenemy - a so-called friend who is not genuinely on your side

Staycation - a vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer AKA Holistay

Go To player - the player you have to get the ball to for success (Matt Dawson referring to the magnificent BOD [Brian O'Driscoll] (24.vi.09 Radio 4)

Flipping - changing the designation of your primary home for fraudulent purposes

Polypill - cocktail of 5 non-patent drugs to counter heart disease (30/31.3.09 reporting of article in medical journal)

Virtual reality financial products - the labyrinthine 'products' that brought about the Credit Crunch (31.3.09 Rowan Williams on BBC Radio 4)

to preg up - to get pregnant (Jen Topping's friend who loves One Born Every Minute)

to doxx - search for and publish private or identifying information about a particular individual on the Internet, typically with malicious intent [10/20]

Gin n Tin (11/19) - gin & mixer in a can

The Gram = Instagram

Picture credit: FAS at SFU (Faculty of Applied Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Canada)

F G H I

F

FAD = Fish Aggregation Device - see Hugh's Fish Fight / www.fishfight.net
FAG = Film Actors Guild (Team America)
FAI = Football Association of Ireland
FAS = Funeral Arbitration Scheme
FAW = Football Association of Wales
FBE = Foundation for the Built Environment - Prince Charles's outfit that opposes architecture like Richard Roger's plans for Chelsea Barracks
FBI = Female Body Inspector (The Other Guys)
FCO = Foreign & Commonwealth Office
FCP = Final Cut Pro
FDA = Food & Drug Administration
FECs = Foreign Exchange Coupons (Berlin 1940s/50s) {The One from The Other} FFF = Fédération Française de Football - the friggin feckin fuckers who cheated the FAI out of their place at the World Cup finals 2010 (Nov 2009)
FFS = for fuck’s sake
FGM = Female genital mutilation
FoI = Freedom of Information
FLO = Family Liaison Officer
FOB = Forward Operating Base {Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds}
FOC
= Friends of Carlotta
= Father of the Chapel (Trade Union)
FOL = Fuck Our Lives
FOP = Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva - a condition where your body slowly freezes/hardens
FML = Fuck My Life not to be confused with FME = FremantleMedia Enterprises
FMV = Full motion video {courtesy of Alice Taylor}
FDR = Franklin Delano Roosevelt
FEP = Future England Player {courtesy of practicalpsychologist}
FHS = Fairley House School
FLK = Funny Looking Kid (doctors' notes term) {courtesy of Dr Dawn Harper of Embarrassing Bodies}
FPM = Fucks per minute (film/tv curse count) cf CPM {courtesy of The Word podcast}
FRO = fuck right off (as in “I’m going to FRO now” rather than as a term of abuse - courtesy of Cowbite)
FSA = Free Syrian Army
FTM = Fuck the Mags [Grayson Perry encounters it in In the Best Possible Taste - working class]
FTW = For The Win (geeks, courtesy of Mike Butcher, TechCrunch) + Fuck The World (bikers) + Forever Two Wheels (motorcycle enthusiasts)
FPA = Funeral Planning Authority
FSA
= Football Supporters' Assocation
= Financial Services Authority
= Food Standards Agency
= Farm Security Administration {Greil Marcus, Like a Rolling Stone}

FCO = Foreign & Commonwealth Office 

FFI = French Forces of the Interior (post-WW2)

FLK = Funny-looking Kid (hospital - delivery ward)

FRT = Facial Recognition Technology

FTA = free-to-air

FTP = Franc-Tireurs et Partisans Francais (French Communist Party’s military wing WW2)

G

G4P = Gormley 4th Plinth {courtesy of Jiblite and the Antony Gormley Flickr Group}
G4S = the arsists formerly known as Group Four Security, poster boys of Private Sector Outsourcing (massive fail on London 2012 Olympics)
GAP = Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (Paterfamilias - Jane Kramer)
GBB = Gun Before Butter (Nicholas Freeling)
GHS = Gormley HimSelf
GLC
= Greater London Council
= Global Learning Commons {Open, David Price}
GNH = Gross National Happiness
GSM = Global System for Mobile communications {courtesy of Alfie Dennen}
GED = Gand Enforcement Detail {Michael Connelly}
GEH = Gormley Event Horizon {courtesy of Billy Liar}
GCT = Grand Central Terminal {courtesy of Bronx Elf}
GDD = Game Design Document (courtesy of Simon at Littleloud}
GHQ = General Headquarters
GIB = Government Investigation Bureau {Zac Power}
GID = Gender Identity Disorder
GTA
= Greater Toronto Area {encountered by chance in the Facebook Group 'Single Muslims looking for their Soulmate in the GTA'}
= Grand Theft Auto
GOK = God Only Knows [commonly used on doctors' notes - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
GBS = George Bernard Shaw
GDC = Game Developers Conference
GFE = Girl Friend Experience
GBH = Grievous Bodily Harm + Godalming Borough Hall
GLF = Gay Liberation Front
GMR = Greater Manchester Radio
GNR = Guns N' Roses (also GN'R)
GPF = Global Protection Force (Jack Stalwart books by Elizabeth Singer Hunt, current favourite of Enfant Terrible #2 - see GIB)
GPS = global positioning system
GQT = Gardeners' Question Time - an oasis of peace on a Sunday afternoon
GSE = Grapefruit Seeds Extract {courtesy of Denise on Medicine Chest}
GSS = Google Site Search
GSI = Great Scottish Invention (one I've coined at the Edinburgh Festival 2009)
GTOs = Girls Together Outrageously = an acapella girl group from the Los Angeles area, specifically the Sunset Strip scene
GWM = Googling While Muslim {Kamila Shamsie, Home Fire}
GYO = Grow Your Own (came across thanks to my Landshare project with River Cottage)
GBF = Gay Best Friend ("every girl's gotta have one") {courtesy of Kate Quilton}

GCA = Ground-controlled approaches (aviation - Armageddon, Leon Uris)

GHP = Grand Hotel Palace (Via Veneto, Rome)

GMC = General Motors Company

GOT = Game of Thrones 

H

HABs = Husbands & Boyfriends - male equivalent of WAGs {Nicky Campbell discussing European Women's Soccer Championship on BBC Radio 5}
HBC = Helena Bonham Carter {courtesy of Mayo & Kermode}
HMG = His Majesty's Government (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop)
HRD = Human Resource Development {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
HEI = Higher Education Institution
HFS = Holy Fucking Shit (synthetic drug in 21 Jump Street)
HoF = House of Fraser (as in "I'm nipping out to HOF") {courtesy of Alma Demirdzic & Lizzy Keene}
HLC = Hideous Lady's Cardigan {Nationwide TV ad}
HLF = Hadditon Literary Festival (Stephen Frear's Tamara Drewe - the HLF was shot in Muswell Hill Bookshop)
HMD = Hold My Dick {courtesy of Bob Diamond's daughter}
HMG = Her/His Majesty's Government
HMU = Hit Me Up {courtesy of @Tim / Tim Bradshaw via @technokitten}
HFR = Horseferry Road
HFW = High frequency words
HOE = Hierarchy of Effects (advertising)
HON = Health on the Net {courtesy of MedicineChest Ltd}HOO = Hazardous Offensive Operations (a status of an army unit) {Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms}
HTH = hope that helps
HWC = Homeless World Cup {courtesy of Jan Bednarz at Buzz Films}

HBR = Harvard Business Review

HBS = Harvard Business School

HCB = Henri Cartier-Bresson

HEA = Higher Education Academy

HEW = Dept. of Health Education & Welfare {Crip Camp}

HMG = Her Majesty's Government 

HMP = Her Majesty's Prison

HOO = Hazardous (/Hostile) Offensive Operations {Officers & Gentleman, E. Waugh} 

I

IAB = Internet Advertisers Bureau (trade association for internet marketeers)
IAG = International Airlines Group (BA + Iberia) - buying BMI in Nov 2011
IAF = Israeli Air Force {My Promised Land, A. Shavit}
IAI - Israel Aerospace Industries {Shimon Peres, No Room for Small Dreams}
IBC = International Broadcast Centre (London Olympics 2012)
IDF
= International Documentary Foundation (Prague)
= Israel Defense Forces
ILS = Instrument Landing System (aviation)
IPG = Independent Publishers Guild {Arts Council = ACE}
ISA = Israel State Archives
ISR = In-Situ Recovery (a method of extracting uranium) {courtesy of Adam James Gee of Uranium One in Australia}
ITB = Invitation to Bid {courtesy of the UN via Practical Psychologist}
ITT = Invitation to Tender {courtesy of Mike Flood Page of Illumina Digital}
ICT = (no, not the dull one but) Inverness Caledonian Thistle (the northerly football team)
IBS = Irritable Bowel Syndrome {Embarrassing Illnesses online, Maverick TV} - not to be confused with IDS = Iain Duncan Smith
IOC = International Olympics Committee [to mark the Olympics hand-over 24.8.08 ]
ICO = Information Commissioner's Office
ICU = Intensive Care Unit
IED = Improvised Explosive Device (heard in a recent news report about Afghanistan)
IEP = Individual Education Plan
ICE = US Immigration & Customs Enforcement (The Visitor)
ITT = Initial Teacher Training
IMC = Integrated Marketing Communications (advertising industry)
IMF= International Monetary Fund
= International Media and Film/Internationale Medien und Film GmbH {Slap Her She's French}
IMO
= International Maritime Organisation
= In My Opinion
INM = Independent News & Media (owner of the Independent and IoS = Independent on Sunday)
ISA = Intelligent Speed Adaptation (mooted technology for limiting car speeds, in the news 12.08)
ISB = Incredible String Band {Some People Are Crazy, John Munro}
IRD = Information Research Dept. (Foreign Office) {Sweet Tooth}
IRG = Iranian Revolutionary Guards {Michael Connelly}
IRL
= In Real Life {courtesy of Mike Butcher of Techcrunch}
= Indy Racing League
= Ireland
IoM = Isle of Man (George Best Airport, Belfast)
ICC
= International Criminal Court (who yesterday 3.3.09 issued a warrant for the arrest of Omar al Bashir, President of Sudan who then withdrew the licences to operate of various NGOs in a new Waltz with Bashir)
= International Cricket Council
ITF = Indie Training Fund (where I spoke on Multiplatform interactive media yesterday 3.3.09 at the invitation of MFP [Mike Flood Page of Illumina Digital] but unfortunately my taxi arrived at ITF = International Transport Federation, so a real life example of the dangers inherent in TLAs)
IFB = the Irish Film Board aka Bord Scannan na hÉireann
IFS = Institute of Fiscal Studies (who told the 3 main parties in the UK general election that they had not detailed their planned spending cuts sufficiently for voters to make an informed judgment 27.4.10)
IRS = Internal Revenue Service
IOT = In Our Time (with Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4)
IWM = Imperial War Museum
IZL = Irgun Zvai Le'umi

ICE = U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

ICU = Intensive Care Unit

IMG = International Marxist Group

IRC = Immigration Removal Centre {Spring, Ali Smith}

ISK = Intelligence Section Know (Secret Days Code-breaking in Bletchley Park)

ITP = Invitation to Pitch (BBC)

J K L M N

J

JAG = Judge Advocate General
JCB = J.C.Bamford (founder of the world's 3rd largest construction equipment manufacturer)
JCC = Jewish Claims Conference (compensation for Nazi theft)
JIC = Joint Intelligence Committee
JIT = Just in Time
JKG = John Kenneth Galbraith
JLC = Justin Lee Collins {courtesy of Top Gear}
JLR = Jaguar-Land Rover (poster boy of UK export industry July 2012)
JO'C = Joseph O'Connor, Irish writer whose recent novel Ghost Light focuses on JMS
JMS = John Millington Synge, Irish playwright
JPF = Judean People's Front
JSG = the Jewish Socialists’ Group
JTG = Jump the Gun - Mod shop in Brighton

JLR = Jaguar Land Rover
JPG = Jean-Paul Gautier [Paris 9/18] 

JYC = Jewish Youth Club (East Finchley) where David Bowie played one of his first gigs

K

KBH = Kenmare Bay Hotel, Kerry
KBO = Keeping Buggering On [Churchill via John Bercow - summarising an attitude of resilience]
KBS = Kick Bollock & Scramble (technical film production term)
KCL = King's College, London {Kermode and Mayo Film Review}
KFC = Kentucky Fried Chicken
KGB = Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti
KIA = Killed in Action
KoT = Kids of Today {courtesy of David Hepworth of The Word}
KPS = Kosovo Police School {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
KTN = Knowledge Transfer Network {courtesy of TSB courtesy of DTI}
KGB = Komitjet Gosudarstvjennoj Bjezopasnosti / Committee for State Security + Knowledge Generation Bureau (owners of 118 118)

L

LAD = Left Anterior Descending (heart surgery)
LAE = line against enquiry {courtesy of Justine Bower, Channel 4 Press}

LBE = Location-based Event (immersive media)
LCA = Lifecycle Assessment [architecture, product design]
LCN = London Centre for Nanotechnology at UCL (University College, London)
LCP
= Liverpool Care Pathway (an approach to caring for the dying)
= London College of Printing (where my mum learned graphic design)
LDA = The League of Democrats against Aggression [Mr Standfast, John Buchan]
LDL = Low Density Lipo-protein
LDM = Life Defining Moment {courtesy of Practical Psychologist from his new book}
LFO = Low-Frequency Oscillator {courtesy of Not from Concentrate}
LGR = London Greek Radio (coming to you live&direct from North Finchley)
LSD = Light Space and Drawers [from Skins, when Chris was learning the ropes as a trainee estate agent]
LBB = London Borough of Barnet
LBD = Little Black Dress
LBJ = Lyndon Baines Johnson (US President)
LOL
= laugh out loud
= Loyal Orange Lodge as in this Thought
= lots of love
= Late Onset Lesbianism {via Rachel Johnson}
LOM = Lady Ottoline Morrell (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
LCT = Luxury Car Tuning {courtesy of spam}
LTS = Long Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
LTZ = Less than Zero, a novel by BEE = Brett Easton Ellis
LCC = London Cats Club, a Flickr group I just noticed with one member (go on, help her out)
LCN = London Centre for Nanotechnology, part of UCL
LHC = Large Hadron Collider [8 Sep 08 to mark the start of a grand experiment]
LFB = London Fire Brigade
LFW = London Fashion Week (starts today 21/09/09)
LHR = London Heathrow
LBV = Late Bottled Vintage (port)
LKP = Last Known Position [11/3/14 missing Malaysian airliner]
LRP = Liquidity Replenishment Points (international finance)
LSA = Laser Sweat Ablation (as featured on Embarrassing Bodies)
LSG = the Left Student Group (A Week in December - Sebastian Faulks)
LSU = La Sainte Union, a school in Parliament Hill, North London, known to local schoolboys as Local Sluts Unit

LAF = London Architecture Festival 

LBB = Late-blooming Boy (college applications)

LEO = Lyons Electronic Office

LIC = Local Improvements Committee (St Agnes)

LLA = London Luton Airport

LRA = Lord’s Resistance Army

LOC = Leaders in Oncology Care

LoD = Line of Duty (BBC TV)
LSD = love sex & drugs (ASAP Rocky) 

M

MAH = Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (Geneva) which is near the MHE = Musee de l'Horlogerie et de l'Emaillerie
MBW = Mr Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) as featured in Banksy's film Exit through the Gift Shop {courtesy of Keo Films} payback time for Andy Warhol
MDT = Mobile Data Terminal {Michael Connelly, The Black Box}
MER = Middle East Record
MEW = Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona in Scott Pilgrim)
MFA = Master of Fine Arts
MFD = Multi-Function Devices for printing, copying and scanning
MCA = Music Corporation of America
MCG = Melbourne Cricket Ground
MNF = Monday Night Football of the NFL variety
MIA = Missing in Action
MIC = Made in Chelsea
MIP = Meet in person {courtesy of Not from Concentrate}
MMA = Mixed Martial Arts
MNF = Monday Night Football
MNU = Multi-National United (District 9)
MoM = Milk of Magnesia
MOR = Middle of the Road
MoS = The Mail on Sunday (who damaged England's 2018 World Cup bid for their own greedy ends 5.10)
MPA
= Metropolitan Police Authority
= Marine Protected Area
MCZ = Marine Conservation Zone as featured in Hugh's Fish Fight 2
MPC
= Monetary Policy Committee of the BoE
= Main Press Centre (London Olympics 2012)
MPD = The Million Pound Drop (Channel 4 programme)
MPT = Movement Poise Thrill {courtesy of Body Data Space}
MPU = Mid Page Unit [i knew what they were - flat ad spaces within the editorial content of websites - but had never heard what it stood for]
MRA = the Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie)
MRI
= Manchester Royal Infirmary {Ambulance}
= Magnetic Resonance Imaging (medical imaging technique)
MSC = Marine Stewardship Council
MSM = Mainstream (offline) Media
MTR = Mountaintop Removal {Freedom, Jonathan Franzen}
MDC = Movement for Democratic Change [who probably should be running Zimbabwe at this point]
Milk Development Council
MTS = Medium Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
MAV = Mothers Against Violence as featured in Secret Millionaire (series 3 episode 1 5/8/08 )
MAC = Motorised Ambulance Convoy [Christopher Landon: Ice Cold in Alex]
MJQ = Modern Jazz Quartet (inspired by listening to Joe Locke {courtesy of Tom Marcello})
MHQ = Mission Head Quarters {courtesy of Practical Psychologist, just back from a stint with the UN)
MAP = Membership Action Plan (what Georgia & Ukraine need to get into NATO 12.08 )
MLF = Martha Lane Fox (Channel 4 Non-Exec, fellow member of the C4 EAB = Education Advisory Board)
MPF = Multiplatform Commissioner (Channel 4)

MRI = Manchester Royal Infirmary {Ambulance}
MRC = Medical Research Council {courtesy of Daniel Glaser, Wellcome Trust}
MTP = My Tiny Plot (which I came across while working on Medicine Chest)
MVP = Most Valuable Player - from NBA via CNN (Lebron James is 08-09 MVP)
MVT = Multivariate Testing

M5S = Five Star Movement (Italy)

MBS = Mohammed bin Salman (crown prince of Saudi Arabia)

MGH = Massachusetts General Hospital

MLS = Major League Soccer

MOI = Ministry of Information (wartime Britain)

MPD = Multiple Personality Disorder - see also DID {Upping Your Ziggy}

MGM

= Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

= Mayer’s-Ganze-Mispochen

MRP = Mouvement Républicain Populaire (Christian Deomcrat 1940s) aka Machine à Ramasser les Pétainistes (Le Canard Enchaîné)

MRU = Mobile Radar Unit {V2 - Robert Harris} 

N

NAO 

= National Audit Office 'Helping the nation spend wisely'

= National Organization of Women
NRC = National register of Citizens (India - Dec 2019)
NEA = National Endowment for the Arts, not to be confused with DEA
NFC
= Near Field Communication (as in NFC business cards)
= National Football Centre {Trevor Brooking}
= Not from Concentrate
= National Football Conference
NFL = National Football League
NHL = National Hockey League
NHI = No Humans Involved
NBA = National Basketball Association
NGC = National Geographic Channel
NHT = Notting Hill Tories (incl. David Cameron, George Osborne, Ed Vaizey)
NIB = News in Brief {courtesy of Vicky Powell, Channel 4 Press Office - used as a verb "he will NIB it in the magazine"}
NIE = National Intelligence Estimate - US spy agencies report {My Promised Land, A. Shavit}
NIS = New Israeli Shekel (currency unit)
NMA = New Media Age (mag)
NoW = New of the World (hacks in many senses including the telephonic)
NTC = National Transitional Council (Libya 22.viii.11)
NTK
= No to Knives {courtesy of Royal Armouries}
= Need to Know {courtesy of Dave Green}
NGA = Next Generation Access {Broadband Stakeholders' Group}
NCA = News and Current Affairs {courtesy of Jon Rowlands, Renegade Pictures}
NCL = Non-Communist Left {Sweet Tooth}
NCR = North Circular Road - see TCR
NLA = New London Architecture - the centre for London's built environment
NQR = Not Quite Right [commonly used on doctors' notes - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
NFI - no fucking idea

NGI = Next Generation Internet
NSA = National Security Agency
NSC = National Security Council
NSF = National Security Files
NSU - Non-Specific Urethritis (" ’the clap’ to you and me" - courtesy of Practical Psychologist)
NID = Naval Intelligence Division (For Your Eyes Only James Bond exhibition at the Imperial War Museum 1.6.08 )
NCT = National Car Test, the Irish MOT + National Childbirth Trust
NFI - No Fucking Invite {courtesy of Ed Baker at the video dictionary Wordia} ("when you don't get invited to a party/gig - and all your friends have been invited" - 'I've been NFI'd')
NED = Non-Executive Director {courtesy of Martha Lane Fox aka MLF} + unruly layabout youth (Scottish, most likely derived from acronym for 'non-educated delinquent' according to The Septic's Companion)
NCM = Needy Child Man, a difficult type to be in a relationship with {courtesy of Sara Haq, photographer}
NVA = National Vigilance Association (who objected to Jacob Epstein's Maternity) {courtesy of art critic Richard Cork}
NWA = Niggers With Attitude
NYE = New Year's Eve {courtesy of Alex Proud}

NCC = New Creation Church (Newquay)

NCR = National Cash Register (Dayton, Ohio)

NPL = National Physical Lab

NPR = National Public Radio

NTR = Nothing to Report (military) {A Long Night in Paris}

S T

S

SAF = Sir Alex Ferguson SAM = Sound & Music {Arts Council = ACE}
SAS = Scandinavian Airlines System or Sparse Airline Service [newly coined after my flights to and from Copenhagen 10/09]
SAT = Schedule All Times – related to advice on when to schedule broadcast trails {courtesy of Channel 4 Compliance}
SBC = Sacha Baron Cohen {courtesy of Mayo & Kermode}, cousin of ABC = Ashley Baron Cohen
SBM = Secure By Mastercard
SCD = Strictly Come Dancing
SCG = Sydney Cricket Ground (where the 2010-11 Ashes in Oz victory was secured 5.i.11)
SDS = Students for a Democratic Society - 60s US activist group {My Promised Land, A. Shavit}
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
SFA = Scottish Football Association (fighting an uphill struggle)
SFC = Southern Fried Chicken
SFW = Safe For Work i.e no nudity or stuff that might get you in trouble {courtesy of sometimes NSFW Zoe Margolis}
SWA = Site Wide Applications, after first 4 years of development became WCL {courtesy Channel 4 New Media}
SWF = Screenwriters' Festival (sponsored by 4Talent)
SLT = Science Lecture Theatre (Haberdashers' Aske's School, Elstree)
SMR = Social Media Room for Embarrassing Bodies: Live at the Clinic Series 2 (May 2012) {courtesy of Alex Hryniewicz, Maverick TV}
SNF = Sunday Night Football of the NFL variety
SNL = Saturday Night Live
SNS = Social Network Service/Site {courtesy of Matt Locke}

--> SoC = systems on a chip {mobile VR 12/16}SPV = Special Purpose Vehicle - meaning a not-for-profit organisation {courtesy of Caroline Norbury of South-West Screen} + Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle {Captain Scarlet}
SoS = Secretary of State
SPA = Snooker Players' Association
SPG = Special Patrol Group (who killed Blair Peach it was confirmed on 27.4.10 after 30 years' cover-up)
SPT = Sony Pictures Television
SIO = Senior Investigating Officer (UK police)
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service (UK WW2 = MI6)
SIV = Special Investment Vehicle {mentioned on Radio 4 by Niall Ferguson, Harvard Professor of History and presenter of the Channel 4 series Empire} + Simian Immunodeficiency Virus {courtesy of Chris & Xand van Tulleken, the Medicine Men}
SSG = Sausage Sandwich Game (Danny Baker)
SSO = Single Sign On {BBC - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SSI = Single Sign In {Channel 4 - courtesy of Azka Malik}
SPD = Space Patrol Delta {courtesy of Finlay Gee, age 5}
SLA
= Software License Agreement {Apple Software Update}
= Service Level Agreement
= Symbionese Liberation Army {Patti Smith, Hey Joe}
SLT
= Science Lecture Theatre {unearthed by renowned archaeologist Nick Golson}
= Speech & Language Therapy {courtesy of Fairley House School}
SDM = Sustainable Defence Mechanism {courtesy of Practical Psychologist from UNFCCC, the UN Climate Change agency}
SID = Sound Inner Dialogue {courtesy of Practical Psychologist and his Assertiveness training know-how} + Seismic Intruder Device {courtesy of Sebasian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming in Devil May Care aka DMC}
SIS = Secret Intelligence Service aka MI6
SOE = Special Operations Executive {courtesy of Les Femmes de l'Ombre/Female Agents} + Society of Operations Engineers [professional engineering membership organisation promoting career development in road transport, plant engineering or engineer surveying, and light on gorgeous French actresses]
STB = Set-top Box
STD = Section Defense Territoire {On Her Majesty's Secret Service} French secret service in the 60s
STS = Short Term Solution {courtesy of Daily Networker}
SFT = Students for a Free Tibet (who unfurled banners near the Olympic stadium in Beijing today 6.8.08 )
SRE = Sex and Relationship Education
SJP = Sarah Jessica Parker, creator of the scent SJP NYC
SFO = Serious Fraud Office (which today decided not to investigate TV phone-in scandals at the BBC and ITV)
SRE = Sex and Relationships Education (much in the news in the wake of Sexperience X.09 )
SOW = Scheme of Work
SHH = Special Half Hour (Richard Bacon show on BBC Radio 5, refers to 12.30-01.00)
SOP = Standard Operating Procedure (Billy Boyle by James Benn)
SDP = Social, Domestic and Pleasure only (car insurance jargon) + Social Democratic Party + Society of Decorative Painters + Session Description Protocol
SOB = Son of a Bitch
STV = Single Transferable Vote - the form of Proportional Representation favoured by the Lib-Dems (this entry is to mark the Lib-Dems entering the UK Cabinet on 11.V.10)
SVR = Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki - successor to KGB {Personal - Lee Child}
SWB = Summary of World Broadcasts (BBC monitoring)
SWC = Schedule with care [TV]

SKD = St Katherine’s Dock (London)

SLA

= Symbionese Liberation Army

= Service Level Agreement

SLP = Sergio Lorenzo Pizzorno (Kasabian)

SRF = Self-Realization Fellowship (Chiltern St)

SSA = Service de Santé des Armées (French military ambulances WW2)

STA = Service de Travail Obligatoire (forced labour WW2) 

T

TAS = Toxic Anger Syndrome {Anger Management with Jack Nicholson}
TCR = Tottenham Court Road - see NCR
TCS = The Casting Suite
TBH = To Be Honest {Tom Loosemore of 4iP}
TCD = Trinity College, Dublin
TCM = Traditional Chinese Medicine (a shop in Muswell Hill)
TDC = Thinly Disguised Contempt {courtesy of Technokitten}
TFP = Time For Prints / Time For Portfolio / Trade For Prints / Trade For Portfolio {courtesy of Not From Concentrate}
TFP aka TOFP = that (other) fucking project {courtesy Mark Sheldon}
TGA = Tate Gallery Archive (A Crisis of Brilliance, David Haycock)
TMF = The Media Festival
TML = Trans Manche Link {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TLC
= (no, not what you think) Taxi and Limousine Commission {New York City}
= Touch Look Check (Breast cancer awareness)
TLV = Total Liquid Ventilation {The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown} (breathable liquid or Get Out of Jail plot card)
TSB = Technology Strategy Board {offspring of another TLA, the DTI, which is now an FLA}
TLD = Top Level Domain
TLR = Two-legged Rat [commonly used on doctors' notes to indicate experimental/extreme treatment - from The Guardian: Medical Shorthand 8.2.08]
TNA = Total Non-stop Action
TNC = Transitional National Council, a variant of National Transitional Council still used on the BBC, for example, in the first days after the liberation of Tripoli (Libya 22.viii.11)
TOD = Time of Death {Michael Connelly}
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers & Gals {Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2}
TSE = Testicular Self-examination (thanks for the leaflet Una, TS Eliot must be turning in his grave)
TSG = Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (EU food designation - formerly CSE)
TBH = To be honest {courtesy of Cowbite - "less pompous than imho" ihho}
TPT = Tara Palmer-Tomkinson [how many people are TLAs?]
TBL = Tim Berners Lee {courtesy of Stuart Cosgrove}
TBI = Traumatic Brain Injury {courtesy of Gary Trudeau as he addresses the issue of Iraq}
TLA = Three Letter Acronym + Teacher Learning Academy + Thomas Lord Audley school, Essex
TNA
= The National Archive {courtesy of October Films & Illumina Digital}
= Thermal Neutron Analysis (airport security) {John Updike, Rabbit at Rest}
TSV = Today's Special Value as seen on QVC {courtesy of LJ Rich via Technokitten}
TBS = Talk Between Ships {Philip Kerr: Hitler's Peace}
TMI = Too Much Information
TAC = The Archaeology Channel
TST = Traveller Support Team {courtesy of Siren's Cry}
THR = The Hollywood Reporter {courtesy of THR spam}
TLR = The Learning Revolution {courtesy of WEA}
TMO - Test Match Official {courtesy of Practical Psychologist}
TCG = Tir Chonaill Gaels (GAA Gaelic football club in London)
TYM = Test Your Memory (new Altzheimer's screening test from Addenbrookes hospital, Cambridge - 6/09)
TOD = Time of Death {The Killing}
TOGs = Terry's Old Geezers/Gits (Terry Wogan show on Radio 2)
TOS = Tide of Shit {courtesy of Lloyd Shepherd and RDH = Richard Davidson-Houston}
TOV = Tone of voice {courtesy of Airlock}
TPL = Towed Pinger Locator [MH370 mystery crash 24/3/14]
TRG = The Transliteracy Research Group {courtesy of Sue Thomas}
TSE = Thomas Stearns Eliot
TSG = Talent Selection Group - BBC 50s/60s - listen to Auditioning for Auntie (Radio 4 21/10/13)
TWA = Transworld Airlines AKA Teenie-Weenie Airlines (the nickname used by Hitchcock)

TFC The flash Centre Bloomsbury Centre

TGB = The Good Burger (Rome 10/18)

TGD = The Greatest Dancer (BBC)

THR = Total Hip Replacement (Here I Am)

TLC = The Loft Converter (Barnet)

TOR = The Onion Router