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}