Language Log

[This is a guest post by Randoh Sallihall]

Analysis of Google search data for 2025 reveals the most searched for texting abbreviations in America.

Study reveals most searched for text abbreviations in America:

1. FAFO (254 000 searches) – F–k around and find out.
2. SMH (166 000 searches) – Shake my head.
3. PMO (101 000 searches) – Put me on.
4. OTP (95 000 searches) – One true pairing.
5. TBH (93 000 searches) – To be honest.
6. ATP (85 000 searches) – At this point.
7. TS (79 000 searches) – Talk soon.
8. WYF (76 000 searches) – Where are you from.
9. NFS (75 000 searches) – New friends.

"AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds:
A test of AI for Australia's corporate regulator found that the technology might actually make more work for people, not less."  Cam Wilson, Crikey (Sep 03, 2024)

An anonymous contributor was curious what the real and would-be copy-editors who hang around LL might make of the below — which may serve to represent for those unfamiliar what is actually going on within the so-called "Language & Writing" portion of our now-acclaimed, now-derided "Scholastic Aptitude [no wait Assessment] Test".

The anonymous contributor can give the correct answer later if it is not obvious; it was not to him.

SAT question