Abbreviations and Acronyms

Textbooks, Reports and Websites are riddled with jargon. Many people use abbreviations and acronyms to save writing or speaking at length. Others use these to make themselves seem clever. Try not to fall into this trap. When writing about energy and climate change always use the full wording first with the abbreviation in brackets afterwards e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Then you can use the abbreviation in the rest of the text.

While we are about it, why not make a stand for understandable English. If anyone insists in speaking in jargon put your hand up every time an abbreviation or acronym is used and ask what they mean. This will be annoying in the short term but the world will thank you in the end.

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Once you have had a chance to look over the abbreviations and acronymns why not try this wordsearch to test yourself?
Abbreviations and Acronyms wordsearch (pdf)