I seem to remember starting to do this some time back but got very little response. If we get enough suggestions I’ll put them all together in a UI page, James.
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Confirm that. I just found the draft I wrote some time back.
One that threw me for years was PAF – Paysage Audiovisuel Français if memory serves. Not that knowing what the abbreviation stands for makes you any the wiser about what it actually means!
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A UI Terry, if I’m not mistaken that’s an acronym! 
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Not an official one but many text messages to me sign off with ‘mdr’. Which is mort de rire’ - theirr equivalent of ‘lol’. (laughing out loud). Like I said, not official but I keep seeing it in correspondence.
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I’ll start a new post over in the Useful Info category for this before it gets out of hand! @terry
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I’ll sort them in to a better arrangement when there are too many
My original idea was to ask people not to use acronyms for at least the first occasion but a file is great for reference. Thanks for doing this. 
I love SPANC (whatever it stands for!!)
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OK @james. I’ll add the one’s I’ve collected and try to sort them
alphabetically to start with.
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SPANC - le Service Public d’Assainissement Non Collectif
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But Sandy, even though not official these are almost more important because you can look them up easily. Thanks
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Very good, but still terribly confusing in a thread or article where so many are thrown about. Would you be able to give a short summary in English explaining what each one is? English or French, we live in an age of acronyms and I hate the wretched things.
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*can’t
It is all very well to have acronyms written in full but what would also be even more useful would be what these particular people, departments, organisations did. Am a real beginner here. Used to hate the damn things in the UK too.
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DTC. I often get that one at work when I ask where something or someone is. Work it out for yourselves.
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These aren’t acronyms, they’re initialisms!
They are acronyms and initialisms, is there any need to be pedantic?
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If by “pedantic” you mean “correct”, then yes. Try saying, in French, in
one syllable, “CPAM”, “EFS” etc.